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I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can’t keep our children safe. We can’t accept the fact that we can’t keep our children safe.

Glennon Doyle

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’ve seen my name on marquees and bowed to standing ovations. I’ve also been called a fraud, a mental case, a heretic. People all over the country wait in line to hug me or curse me.
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Abuse Country Mental Myself People See Wait
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
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 are all trained by Disney to believe that the wedding is the finish line, but the wedding is just another starting line. In light of this fact, we should quit the huge, fancy, debt-inducing weddings.
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Believe Line Marriage Money Quit Start Training
One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we’re ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It’s as simple as that. We’re all in pain in different ways, and we don’t get the help we need because we’re too ashamed to talk about the pain.
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Alone Different Lives Oneself Pain Reason Shame Simplicity Stay Way
I’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
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Be Yourself Instagram Captions
Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it’s also the place we’re most vulnerable. We’re all a little afraid we’re doing it wrong.
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Afraid Important Parents Place Vulnerable Wrong
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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Herself Story Woman Yourself
If you’re not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down until we utter that magic word: help! That’s when angels rush to your side.
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Angel Help Hold On Life Magic 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
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
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
Brave’ is very specific and extremely personal. Sometimes brave means letting everyone else think you’re a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.
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Brave Deep Thinking Wisdom Yourself
We’re told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There’s an inherent contradiction.
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Human Quiet Success Voice Woman
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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Enough Food God Ourselves See Taste Time

I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can’t keep our children safe. We can’t accept the fact that we can’t keep our children safe.

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I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can’t keep our children safe. We can’t accept the fact that we can’t keep our children safe.

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