Top 200 Glennon Doyle Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Glennon Doyle

202. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

205. “Tish is sensitive, and that is her superpower. The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

207. “My whole life is an apology, and that hasn’t made a damn thing better. Mary had known. She had understood: A woman doesn’t need to be told, yet again, that she’s bad. She needs to be told that she’s good.”

— Glennon Doyle

208. “Why do women find it honorable to dismiss ourselves? Why do we decide that denying our longing is the responsible thing to do? Why do we believe that what will thrill and fulfill us will hurt our people?”

— Glennon Doyle

209. “A boundary is the edge of one of our root beliefs about ourselves and the world.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

211. “The facts were right there in front of me to see. But the truth was right there inside of me to feel.”

— Glennon Doyle

212. “Here is your baby. Love her at home, at the polls, in the streets. Let everything happen to her. Be near.”

— Glennon Doyle

213. “We are all bilingual. We speak the language of indoctrination, but our native tongue is the language of imagination.”

— Glennon Doyle

214. “Everything I need to become the woman I’m meant to be next is inside my feelings of now.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

216. “Gotta uncover before you can recover.”

— Glennon Doyle

217. “Girls born into a patriarchal society become either shrewd or sick. It’s one or the other.”

— Glennon Doyle

218. “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?”

— Glennon Doyle

219. “I left my husband to build a life with Abby for the same reason I left booze to become a mother eighteen years ago. Because suddenly I was able to imagine a truer, more beautiful existence for myself than the one I was living. And my way of life is to dare to imagine the truest, most beautiful life, family, and world – and to then conjure up the courage to make real what I have imagined.”

— Glennon Doyle

220. “I do not adjust myself to please the world. I am myself wherever I am, and I let the world adjust.”

— Glennon Doyle

221. “I have decided that I want to be in love with a person, not a feeling. I want to be found in love, not lost in it. I’d rather exist than disappear.”

— Glennon Doyle

222. “I want to fall in grown-up love. I want risky, true, scary love. I want to learn how to let my body bring me to love with an equal partner. I want that.”

— Glennon Doyle

223. “Our beliefs determine how we experience the world.”

— Glennon Doyle

224. “Does having the best of everything make the best people?”

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225. “Our children are too vast to fit themselves inside these rigid, mass-produced bottles. But they’ll lose themselves trying.”

— Glennon Doyle

226. “I thought my role was to protect Tish from pain, so I ended up teaching her that disaster was just around the corner. By shielding her constantly, I taught her how to be afraid. I taught her to hide. I taught her that she was not capable of handling what life might bring. Be careful, baby, be careful, baby, come here, honey. Mommy will protect you.”

— Glennon Doyle

227. “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.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

229. “Our minds are excuse makers; our imaginations are storytellers. So instead of asking ourselves what’s right or wrong, we must ask ourselves: What is true and beautiful?”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

231. “We must be committed to holding on to nothing but the truth. We must decide that if the truth inside us can burn a belief, a family structure, a business, a religion, an industry – it should have become ashes yesterday.”

— Glennon Doyle

232. “Since it doesn’t use words to explain itself to me, I quit using words to explain myself to the world. This is the most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next precise thing, one thing at a time, without asking permission or offering explanation. This way of life is thrilling.”

— Glennon Doyle

233. “The Ache is not a flaw. The Ache is our meeting place. It’s the clubhouse of the brave. All the lovers are there. It is where you go alone to meet the world. The Ache is love.”

— Glennon Doyle

234. “Discontent is the nagging of the imagination. Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention by whispering: “Not this.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

236. “I’m trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins.”

— Glennon Doyle

237. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning,” said Gloria Steinem.”

— Glennon Doyle

238. “We can either control our selves or love our selves, but we can’t do both. Love is the opposite of control. Love demands trust.”

— Glennon Doyle

239. “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.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

241. “I am in the One Big Ache of lovepainbeautytendernesslonginggoodbye.”

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242. “I think the only way to convince anybody you are okay is just to go about being okay and let them witness it.”

— Glennon Doyle

243. “Having such little faith in myself that I numb or hide or consume my way out of my fiery feelings again and again.”

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244. “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.”

— Glennon Doyle

245. “What matters is what people outside the circle perceive to be happening there. What matters is not what is real, but what I can convince others is real. What matters is not how I feel inside, but how I appear to feel on the outside. How I appear to feel will determine how others feel about me. What matters is how others feel about me. So I act like someone who feels Golden.”

— Glennon Doyle

246. “If constant anger is what is real in here, we must address it – both for ourselves and for the other. Because it is not kind to keep those we can’t forgive close to us and punish them forever. If we cannot forgive and move on, perhaps we need to move on first, and forgiveness will follow. Forgiveness does not mean access. We can give the other person the gift of forgiveness and ourselves the gift of safety and freedome at the very same time.”

— Glennon Doyle