Glennon Doyle

I have this hunch that everything was supposed to be more beautiful than this.

She’d sigh and say, “I should be grateful. I have a good enough life here. It’s crazy to long for what doesn’t even exist.”

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

That sin is wanting to know more than we are supposed to know, wanting more instead of being grateful for what we have, and doing what we want to do instead of what we should do.”

Not a verb to be found. Nothing to do here, just a list of things to be.

When girls are still being taught that real women must be quiet, pretty, small, passive, and desirable so they’ll be worthy of being conquered.

Here we all are. Our sons and daughters are still being shamed out of their full humanity before they even get dressed in the morning.

The opposite of sensitive is not brave.

They are considered eccentric but critical to the survival of the group because they are able to hear things others don’t hear and see things others don’t see and feel things others don’t feel.

It is easier to call us broken and dismiss us than to consider that we are responding appropriately to a broken world.