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

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

— Glennon Doyle

203. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

209. “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

210. “We become the air we breathe.”

— Glennon Doyle

211. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

213. “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.”

— Glennon Doyle

214. “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

215. “My only expectation is that you become yourself. The more deeply I know you, the more beautiful you become to me. If someone tells you who they are, consider how lucky you are to be graced with that gift. Don’t respond with an eviction notice, a permission slip, or a concession speech. Un-God yourself. Gasp in awe and applaud with gusto.”

— Glennon Doyle

216. “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.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

218. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

220. “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

221. “There is no glory except straight through your story.”

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

228. “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

229. “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

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

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231. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

233. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

239. “Gotta uncover before you can recover.”

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

— Glennon Doyle

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

— Glennon Doyle

242. “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

243. “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

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

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245. “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

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

— Glennon Doyle