Glennon Doyle

Right around ten is when we begin to internalize our formal taming.

How much of who I’ve become is inherent, and how much was just inherited?

Tish is sensitive, and that is her superpower. The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.

The boys looked inside themselves. The girls looked outside themselves.

We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.

I was wild until I was tamed by shame.

Consuming keeps us distracted, busy, and numb. Numbness keeps us from becoming.

Because what scares me a hell of a lot more than pain is living my entire life and missing my becoming

What scares me more than feeling it all is missing it all.

When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.

Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.