When we shrug and say we don’t care, it’s usually a lie. Every girl cares. We’ve just been taught not to expose ourselves by showing it. What the world needs now is girls and women who aren’t afraid to care – who are done saying, ‘Whatever.’
GLENNON DOYLEI ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they’re the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.
More Glennon Doyle Quotes
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It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.
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Nothing separates a woman or a family from God’s love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.
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Your body is not your art – it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.
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Over time, I have come to believe that ‘brave’ does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean ‘being afraid and doing it anyway.’ Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.
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I don’t want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don’t want to carry around anything I don’t have to. I want to travel light.
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I’m not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change – not somebody else.
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I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That’s all. And for me, it’s fine that my house’s interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
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I believe in people because I believe in God. I think God knew what God was doing when God made each of us.
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I’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
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The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
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If you ask a woman who she is, she’ll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn’t the whole story.
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If we are going to ask for our daily bread, we’ve got to take the time to receive it and eat it. God provide, but we’ve got to slow down long enough to taste and see.
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We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.
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I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
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Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.
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