I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
GLENNON DOYLEI hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
GLENNON DOYLEWhen I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.
GLENNON DOYLEI’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.
GLENNON DOYLEWhen 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 DOYLEIf 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.
GLENNON DOYLEI 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 DOYLEI snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I’m the opposite of it.
GLENNON DOYLEWhen in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
GLENNON DOYLEIf 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.
GLENNON DOYLEBeing a mother is a little like ‘Groundhog’s Day.’ It’s getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and again and yet again – and it’s watching it all get undone again and again and yet again. It’s humbling, monotonous, mind-numbing, and solitary.
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.
GLENNON DOYLEOver 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.
GLENNON DOYLEYou need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.
GLENNON DOYLEQuestions are like gifts – it’s the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
GLENNON DOYLEYoung people: marry simply, start your life, and party later. Think of how much babysitting for your future colicky baby you could buy with that wedding budget. Think of how much marriage therapy you could buy. Invest in your marriage, not your wedding.
GLENNON DOYLEDo not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.
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