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Glennon Doyle

It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn’t believe in gay marriage.
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Believe Friendship Marriage Myself Oppression Religion
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.
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Age Dangerous Friendship Life Live Myself Wrong
I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
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Hard Hate Love Myself Tears Warrior Writing
When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
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Choice Doubt Faith Ideas Love Myself
Book tours are super hard for me as a raging introvert. I love humanity, but actual humans are hard for me. So something like a book tour – where I’m constantly on the road – scares the hell out of me.
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Book Hell Humanity Love Myself Road Scare
You do not have to agree with me to love me.
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Agreement Love Myself Relationship Yourself
We are – each and every one of us – unlearning misogyny. It’s going to take some time. But be aware and active of your prejudices. Notice when they kick in and resist. Fight to stay soft and open. Step back and squint hard.
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Fight Learning Oneself Resistance Stay Time
I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease and immigration and health care for all and war and peace and the environment are also pro-life issues.
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Care Health Issues Life Myself Ourselves Peace Thinking
Sometimes the rewards of risk don’t leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
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Comfortable Connection Courage Goodness Leaving Life Ourselves Passion Purpose Result Reward Risk
Love is kind, right? It’s not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.
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Feeling Kind Love Right Yourself
The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we’re all same.
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Different Learning People Yourself
When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they’re missing the mark.
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Decision Love Missing People Soul
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others’ needs, I ached to reestablish myself.
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Enough Establishment Lost Mom Myself Pain Time
I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That’s who I was when I came into this world and who I’ll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.
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End Friendship Leaving Mom Myself Wife World Writing
A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form, safe in the traditional meaning of the word. Because living safely means dying without too many regrets. That is safe.
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Death Dream Knowledge Live Regret Safety
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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Honesty Love Perfection Reality Vulnerable

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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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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