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Top 25 Hannah Gadsby Quotes (2024 Update)

Hannah Gadsby Quote: “There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.”

1. “There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “We don’t grieve for what we’ve lost but for what we never knew. We grieve because none of us can reconcile the beauty we can see in our past with the ugliness we were told to remember.”

2. “We don’t grieve for what we’ve lost but for what we never knew. We grieve because none of us can reconcile the beauty we can see in our past with the ugliness we were told to remember.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “You may or may not be ready to hear this information, but I’ll tell you, because knowledge is power, ignorance is a cage and feelings can be dealt with.”

3. “You may or may not be ready to hear this information, but I’ll tell you, because knowledge is power, ignorance is a cage and feelings can be dealt with.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “Fat jokes were my bread and butter which is a shame because that kind of bread and butter is basically a shame sandwich, and shame is never part of a healthy balanced diet.”

4. “Fat jokes were my bread and butter which is a shame because that kind of bread and butter is basically a shame sandwich, and shame is never part of a healthy balanced diet.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.”

5. “To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space.”

6. “Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside but when you do that to a child, it becomes a weed so thick and it grows so fast, that child doesn’t know anything different. It becomes as natural as gravity.”

7. “Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside but when you do that to a child, it becomes a weed so thick and it grows so fast, that child doesn’t know anything different. It becomes as natural as gravity.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “You learn from the part of the story you focus on.”

8. “You learn from the part of the story you focus on.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “I don’t identify as transgender. But I’m clearly gender not-normal. I don’t think even lesbian is the right identity for me. I really don’t. I might as well come out now. I identify as tired. I’m just tired.”

9. “I don’t identify as transgender. But I’m clearly gender not-normal. I don’t think even lesbian is the right identity for me. I really don’t. I might as well come out now. I identify as tired. I’m just tired.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “What good is a coherent narrative if people don’t want to hear it? Because trauma won’t leave you alone until you feel safe, and safety is not something that an individual can summon on their own. Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space.”

10. “What good is a coherent narrative if people don’t want to hear it? Because trauma won’t leave you alone until you feel safe, and safety is not something that an individual can summon on their own. Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space.”

— Hannah Gadsby

Hannah Gadsby Quote: “When I told Mum that I was autistic, she said: “Yeah, that makes sense. I always knew that there was a lot going on inside you, but I just couldn’t get in. You were like a tin of baked beans and my tin opener wouldn’t work on you.” It’s a tidy metaphor, especially if you know that Mum does not like baked beans.”

11. “When I told Mum that I was autistic, she said: “Yeah, that makes sense. I always knew that there was a lot going on inside you, but I just couldn’t get in. You were like a tin of baked beans and my tin opener wouldn’t work on you.” It’s a tidy metaphor, especially if you know that Mum does not like baked beans.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “I am not good enough at organizing to be an actual activist. But searching for connections between the big picture and the little picture, however, is a very ASD thing to do. I am never not cross-referencing the trees with the forests, and it can be a very exhausting way to engage, but I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I believe communities need thinkers like me.”

12. “I am not good enough at organizing to be an actual activist. But searching for connections between the big picture and the little picture, however, is a very ASD thing to do. I am never not cross-referencing the trees with the forests, and it can be a very exhausting way to engage, but I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I believe communities need thinkers like me.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “His eyes were downcast and his shoulders were slumped, as if he was trying to take up the least space humanly possible. I began to wonder whose job it was to teach people like him that public spaces were shared spaces, and that he was allowed to take up space.”

13. “His eyes were downcast and his shoulders were slumped, as if he was trying to take up the least space humanly possible. I began to wonder whose job it was to teach people like him that public spaces were shared spaces, and that he was allowed to take up space.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “A start is not the same as a beginning.”

14. “A start is not the same as a beginning.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside in.”

15. “Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside in.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “I got through it. Of course I did. Hello. But I didn’t emerge from the experience as a person who was wholly committed to the living of life.”

16. “I got through it. Of course I did. Hello. But I didn’t emerge from the experience as a person who was wholly committed to the living of life.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “I wish I were deadpan. It’s a very effective comic device. It’s like the better-natured and kinder-hearted cousin of sarcasm.”

17. “I wish I were deadpan. It’s a very effective comic device. It’s like the better-natured and kinder-hearted cousin of sarcasm.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.”

18. “Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “Closed minds are a disorder of the highest order.”

19. “Closed minds are a disorder of the highest order.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “The power of a joke is not in the writing. It is how you wrap your voice around it.”

20. “The power of a joke is not in the writing. It is how you wrap your voice around it.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “I did not pull myself out of this hole. I just got lucky. So many people work hard their whole entire lives and only ever go backward, through no fault of their own. People are trapped in cycles far worse than the one I was in, and it’s just not their fault. So, I won’t be claiming that it was some kind of superior grit of mine that got me through it. All I did was enter a comedy competition and had a bit of luck for once.”

21. “I did not pull myself out of this hole. I just got lucky. So many people work hard their whole entire lives and only ever go backward, through no fault of their own. People are trapped in cycles far worse than the one I was in, and it’s just not their fault. So, I won’t be claiming that it was some kind of superior grit of mine that got me through it. All I did was enter a comedy competition and had a bit of luck for once.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “To be able to wrap your own voice around your own mind, and to be able to craft it into something that has the capacity to make a room full of strangers think and feel differently, even if it’s just for a moment in time, is an incredible and humbling thing to be able to do.”

22. “To be able to wrap your own voice around your own mind, and to be able to craft it into something that has the capacity to make a room full of strangers think and feel differently, even if it’s just for a moment in time, is an incredible and humbling thing to be able to do.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure.”

23. “Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “I want the world to stop demanding gratuitous details in exchange for empathy. Entertainment in exchange for understanding. But I am not in charge of the world. I am not even in charge of my own story, because, as I am so fond of saying, there is no such thing as a straight line through trauma.”

24. “I want the world to stop demanding gratuitous details in exchange for empathy. Entertainment in exchange for understanding. But I am not in charge of the world. I am not even in charge of my own story, because, as I am so fond of saying, there is no such thing as a straight line through trauma.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “The lives of a vulnerable minority should never have been put into the hands of the majority in a media landscape that is all too happy to be powered by the fumes of a toxic debate.”

25. “The lives of a vulnerable minority should never have been put into the hands of the majority in a media landscape that is all too happy to be powered by the fumes of a toxic debate.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “I want the world to stop demanding gratuitous details in exchange for empathy. Entertainment in exchange for understanding.”

26. “I want the world to stop demanding gratuitous details in exchange for empathy. Entertainment in exchange for understanding.”

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Hannah Gadsby Quote: “To have another person reveal your secret to the world is humiliating enough, but it’s so, so much worse when it happens before you’ve worked it out for yourself and then to hear everyone laugh.”

27. “To have another person reveal your secret to the world is humiliating enough, but it’s so, so much worse when it happens before you’ve worked it out for yourself and then to hear everyone laugh.”

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