Glennon Doyle

“Femininity” is just a set of human characteristics a culture pours into a bucket and slaps with the label “feminine.”

Because disallowing the expression of these qualities is the way the status quo keeps its power.

Mercy and empathy are great threats to an unjust society.

What if we let ourselves feel it all? What if we decided that it is strength—not weakness—to let other people’s pain pierce us?

It’s not the cruel criticism from folks who hate us that scares us away from our Knowing; it’s the quiet concern of those who love us.

Explaining is fear preparing its case, and we are not on trial. No one can take what we have.

Self-hatred is harder to unlearn than it is to learn. It is difficult for a woman to be healthy in a culture that is still so very sick.

I lived in a mine, and the toxin was misogyny. I got sick from it. Not because I’m a bad, sexist person, but because I was breathing misogynistic air.

Revelation must come before revolution.

People aren’t changing, after all. It’s just that for the first time, there’s enough freedom for people to stop changing who they are. Progress is the acknowledgment of what is and what has always been. Progress is always a returning.