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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Listen. Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”

201. “Listen. Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I am a sensitive, introverted woman, which means that I love humanity but actual human beings are tricky for me. I love people but not in person. For example, I would die for you but not, like... meet you for coffee. I became a writer so I could stay at home alone in my pajamas, reading and writing about the importance of human connection and community.”

202. “I am a sensitive, introverted woman, which means that I love humanity but actual human beings are tricky for me. I love people but not in person. For example, I would die for you but not, like... meet you for coffee. I became a writer so I could stay at home alone in my pajamas, reading and writing about the importance of human connection and community.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming.”

203. “Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Consumer culture promises us that we can buy our way out of pain – that the reason we’re sad and angry is not that being human hurts; it’s because we don’t have those countertops, her thighs, these jeans. This is a clever way to run an economy, but it is no way to run a life.”

204. “Consumer culture promises us that we can buy our way out of pain – that the reason we’re sad and angry is not that being human hurts; it’s because we don’t have those countertops, her thighs, these jeans. This is a clever way to run an economy, but it is no way to run a life.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “I do not want my children to become people who abandon themselves to please the crowd.”

205. “I do not want my children to become people who abandon themselves to please the crowd.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Girls and women want to be liked. We want to be trusted. So we downplay our strengths to avoid threatening anyone and invoking disdain. We do not mention our accomplishments. We do not accept compliments. We temper, we qualify, and discount our opinions. We walk without swagger and we yield incessantly. We step out of the way. We say I feel like instead of I knew. We ask if our ideas make sense instead of assuming they do. We apologize for everything.”

206. “Girls and women want to be liked. We want to be trusted. So we downplay our strengths to avoid threatening anyone and invoking disdain. We do not mention our accomplishments. We do not accept compliments. We temper, we qualify, and discount our opinions. We walk without swagger and we yield incessantly. We step out of the way. We say I feel like instead of I knew. We ask if our ideas make sense instead of assuming they do. We apologize for everything.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “What is it that affects you so deeply that whenever you encounter it, you feel the need to look away? Look there. Where is the pain in the world that you just cannot stand? Stand there. The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer’s work begins with a broken heart.”

207. “What is it that affects you so deeply that whenever you encounter it, you feel the need to look away? Look there. Where is the pain in the world that you just cannot stand? Stand there. The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer’s work begins with a broken heart.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “Being fully human is not about feeling happy, it’s about feeling everything.”

208. “Being fully human is not about feeling happy, it’s about feeling everything.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Can you imagine? The epitome of womanhood is to lose one’s self completely.”

209. “Can you imagine? The epitome of womanhood is to lose one’s self completely.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I have written a book, and now I must become a commercial for the book I have written. What is the point of being a writer if I have to say words about the words I’ve already written? Do painters have to draw about their paintings?”

210. “I have written a book, and now I must become a commercial for the book I have written. What is the point of being a writer if I have to say words about the words I’ve already written? Do painters have to draw about their paintings?”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Milling with people I do not know is my idea of hell on Earth. I do not mill.”

211. “Milling with people I do not know is my idea of hell on Earth. I do not mill.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Ten is when we learn how to be good girls and real boys. Ten is when children begin to hide who they are in order to become what the world expects them to be.”

212. “Ten is when we learn how to be good girls and real boys. Ten is when children begin to hide who they are in order to become what the world expects them to be.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “If you are uncomfortable – in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused – you don’t have a problem, you have a life.”

213. “If you are uncomfortable – in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused – you don’t have a problem, you have a life.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “You’ll never be forced to hide or act in order to keep people if you don’t hide or act to get them.”

214. “You’ll never be forced to hide or act in order to keep people if you don’t hide or act to get them.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “The boys looked inside themselves. The girls looked outside themselves. We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”

215. “The boys looked inside themselves. The girls looked outside themselves. We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I’ve got these conditions – anxiety, depression, addiction –and they almost killed me. But they are also my superpowers. The sensitivity that led me to addiction is the same sensitivity that makes me a really good artist. The anxiety that makes it difficult to exist in a world where so many people are in so much pain – and that makes me a relentless activist. The fire that burned me up for the first half of my life is the exact same fire I’m using now to light up the world.”

216. “I’ve got these conditions – anxiety, depression, addiction –and they almost killed me. But they are also my superpowers. The sensitivity that led me to addiction is the same sensitivity that makes me a really good artist. The anxiety that makes it difficult to exist in a world where so many people are in so much pain – and that makes me a relentless activist. The fire that burned me up for the first half of my life is the exact same fire I’m using now to light up the world.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “In a culture as imbalanced as ours – in which a few hoard billions while others starve, in which wars are fought for oil, in which children are shot and killed while gun manufacturers and politicians collect the blood money – mercy, humanity, and vulnerability cannot be tolerated. Mercy and empathy are great threats to an unjust society.”

217. “In a culture as imbalanced as ours – in which a few hoard billions while others starve, in which wars are fought for oil, in which children are shot and killed while gun manufacturers and politicians collect the blood money – mercy, humanity, and vulnerability cannot be tolerated. Mercy and empathy are great threats to an unjust society.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy.”

218. “I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I will never promise to be this way or that way, I will only promise to show up, as I am, wherever I am. That’s it, and that’s all. People will like me or not, but being liked is not my One Thing; integrity is. So I must live and tell my truth. Folks will come around or quit coming around. Either way: lovely. Anything or anyone I could lose by telling the truth was never mine anyway. I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.”

219. “I will never promise to be this way or that way, I will only promise to show up, as I am, wherever I am. That’s it, and that’s all. People will like me or not, but being liked is not my One Thing; integrity is. So I must live and tell my truth. Folks will come around or quit coming around. Either way: lovely. Anything or anyone I could lose by telling the truth was never mine anyway. I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “It wasn’t enough for women to have equality with men; they needed equality with each other.”

220. “It wasn’t enough for women to have equality with men; they needed equality with each other.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Parenthood is thinking: This is too much. I cannot lead them. But I will do the thing I cannot do.”

221. “Parenthood is thinking: This is too much. I cannot lead them. But I will do the thing I cannot do.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I’m happier now. I’m not doubting myself as much, and that is making me confident and stronger, so I’m suffering less. I have noticed that it seems easier for the world to love a suffering woman than it is for the world to love a joyful, confident woman.”

222. “I’m happier now. I’m not doubting myself as much, and that is making me confident and stronger, so I’m suffering less. I have noticed that it seems easier for the world to love a suffering woman than it is for the world to love a joyful, confident woman.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Grief is a cocoon from which we emerge new.”

223. “Grief is a cocoon from which we emerge new.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “We become the air we breathe.”

224. “We become the air we breathe.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “All of the beliefs that anger delivers come with a return label.”

225. “All of the beliefs that anger delivers come with a return label.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Femininity” is just a set of human characteristics a culture pours into a bucket and slaps with the label “feminine.”

226. “Femininity” is just a set of human characteristics a culture pours into a bucket and slaps with the label “feminine.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I want to be found in love, not lost in it.”

227. “I want to be found in love, not lost in it.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “If what I’ve found in the deep is just my self – if what I’ve learned is not how to commune with God but how to commune with myself – if who I have learned to trust is not God but myself – and if, for the rest of my life, no matter how lost I get, I know exactly where and how to find myself again – well, then. That is certainly enough of a miracle for me.”

228. “If what I’ve found in the deep is just my self – if what I’ve learned is not how to commune with God but how to commune with myself – if who I have learned to trust is not God but myself – and if, for the rest of my life, no matter how lost I get, I know exactly where and how to find myself again – well, then. That is certainly enough of a miracle for me.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “You are not crazy. You are a goddamn cheetah.”

229. “You are not crazy. You are a goddamn cheetah.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I see your fear, and it’s big. I also see your courage and it’s bigger. We can do hard things, baby. We are fireproof.”

230. “I see your fear, and it’s big. I also see your courage and it’s bigger. We can do hard things, baby. We are fireproof.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I burned the memo that defined selflessness as the pinnacle of womanhood, but first I forgave myself for believing that lie for so long.”

231. “I burned the memo that defined selflessness as the pinnacle of womanhood, but first I forgave myself for believing that lie for so long.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Ten minutes a day is not too long to spend finding yourself, Glennon. For God’s sake, you spend eighty minutes a day finding your keys.”

232. “Ten minutes a day is not too long to spend finding yourself, Glennon. For God’s sake, you spend eighty minutes a day finding your keys.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “God is not a being outside of me: God is the fire, the nudge, the warm liquid gold swelling and pressing inside me.”

233. “God is not a being outside of me: God is the fire, the nudge, the warm liquid gold swelling and pressing inside me.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I see that you’re upset. Are you ready for a solution yet? Or do you just need to feel this way for a while?”

234. “I see that you’re upset. Are you ready for a solution yet? Or do you just need to feel this way for a while?”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Being both depressed and anxious is a bit like being Eeyore and Tigger at the same time. It’s like always living a little too low and a little too high. It’s always struggling to be at the level where life happens, which is here and now.”

235. “Being both depressed and anxious is a bit like being Eeyore and Tigger at the same time. It’s like always living a little too low and a little too high. It’s always struggling to be at the level where life happens, which is here and now.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “The moment after we don’t know what to do with ourselves is the moment we find ourselves.”

236. “The moment after we don’t know what to do with ourselves is the moment we find ourselves.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I burned the memo that defined selflessness as the pinnacle of womanhood, but first I forgave myself for believing that lie for so long. I had abandoned myself out of love. They’d convinced me that the best way for a woman to love her partner, family, and community was to lose herself in service to them.”

237. “I burned the memo that defined selflessness as the pinnacle of womanhood, but first I forgave myself for believing that lie for so long. I had abandoned myself out of love. They’d convinced me that the best way for a woman to love her partner, family, and community was to lose herself in service to them.”

— Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle Quote: “We obsess over our children’s snacks while they rehearse their own deaths in active-shooter drills at school. We agonize over their college prep while the earth melts around them. I cannot imagine that there has ever been a more overparented and underprotected generation.”

238. “We obsess over our children’s snacks while they rehearse their own deaths in active-shooter drills at school. We agonize over their college prep while the earth melts around them. I cannot imagine that there has ever been a more overparented and underprotected generation.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I am a woman who has learned repeatedly that while rock bottom feels like the end – it’s always the beginning of something.”

239. “I am a woman who has learned repeatedly that while rock bottom feels like the end – it’s always the beginning of something.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Yes, everyone you love would be uncomfortable for a long while, maybe. What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.”

240. “Yes, everyone you love would be uncomfortable for a long while, maybe. What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “When women write to me in the language of indoctrination – when they use words like good and should and right and wrong – I try to speak back to them in the language of imagination.”

241. “When women write to me in the language of indoctrination – when they use words like good and should and right and wrong – I try to speak back to them in the language of imagination.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I don’t think that gayness is contagious. But I am certain that freedom is.”

242. “I don’t think that gayness is contagious. But I am certain that freedom is.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer’s work begins with a broken heart.”

243. “The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer’s work begins with a broken heart.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “What many tell me is that they harbor an achy, heavy hunch that their lives, relationships, and world were meant to be more beautiful than they are.”

244. “What many tell me is that they harbor an achy, heavy hunch that their lives, relationships, and world were meant to be more beautiful than they are.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “When she becomes upset, we assume she has her own valid reason. So we say, “I see that you’re upset. Are you ready for a solution yet? Or do you just need to feel this way for a while?”

245. “When she becomes upset, we assume she has her own valid reason. So we say, “I see that you’re upset. Are you ready for a solution yet? Or do you just need to feel this way for a while?”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Our boys are born with great potential for nurturing, caring, loving, and serving. Let’s stop training it out of them.”

246. “Our boys are born with great potential for nurturing, caring, loving, and serving. Let’s stop training it out of them.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”

247. “The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “This is why they call it falling in love, because there is suddenly no solid ground beneath you anymore.”

248. “This is why they call it falling in love, because there is suddenly no solid ground beneath you anymore.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “Brave means living from the inside out. Brave means, in every uncertain moment, turning inward, feeling for the Knowing, and speaking it out loud.”

249. “Brave means living from the inside out. Brave means, in every uncertain moment, turning inward, feeling for the Knowing, and speaking it out loud.”

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Glennon Doyle Quote: “I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. The experts don’t know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazines, the authors, my parents, my friends, they don’t know. Not even the folks who love me the most. Because no one has ever lived or will live this life I am attempting to live. Every life is an unprecendented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.”

250. “I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. The experts don’t know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazines, the authors, my parents, my friends, they don’t know. Not even the folks who love me the most. Because no one has ever lived or will live this life I am attempting to live. Every life is an unprecendented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.”

— Glennon Doyle

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