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“A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free.” (Untamed Quotes)
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Blessed are those brave enough to make things awkward, for they wake us up and move us forward.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“First the pain, then the waiting, then the rising. All of our suffering comes when we try to get to our resurrection without allowing ourselves to be crucified first.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Hard work is important. So are play and nonproductivity. My worth is tied not to my productivity but to my existence. I am worthy of rest.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Hell hath no fury like a memoirist whose husband just fucked up her story.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“I don’t give a rat’s ass how much respect you earn for yourself out in the world if you are not showing respect to the people inside your home. If you don’t get that right, nothing you do out there will matter much.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“I have learned that if I want to rise, I have to sink first. I have to search for and depend upon the voice of inner wisdom instead of voices of outer approval. This saves me from living someone else’s life. It also saves me a hell of a lot of time and energy.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“I learned that I’d never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“I will not stay, not ever again – in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“If you keep living with confidence, the rest of your life will unfold exactly as it is meant to. It won’t always be comfortable. Some will recognize your brave; others won’t. Some will.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“If you want to get jaded and numb, watch the news. If you want to stay human, read letters. When trying to understand humanity, seek out firsthand accounts.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“It’s just that living with anxiety – living alarmed – makes it impossible to enter the moment, to land inside my body and be there. I cannot be in the moment because I am too afraid of what the next moment will bring. I have to be ready.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“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.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Pain is not tragic. Pain is magic. Suffering is tragic. Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Privilege is being born on third base. Ignorant privilege is thinking you’re there because you hit a triple. Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren’t waiting patiently enough.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else’s way instead of forging your own. Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“The only thing that was every wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“The thing that gets me thinking and questioning most deeply is a leader who warns me not to think or question.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Understand and like you; others won’t. But the way others respond to your confidence is not your business. Your business is to stay loyal to you.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“We don’t control the turbulence or tragedy that happens to our families. The plot of our lives is largely out of our control. We decide only the response of the main character. We decide whether we will be the one who jumps ship or the one who stays and leads.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“We’re like snow globes: We spend all of our time, energy, words, and money creating a flurry, trying not to know, making sure that the snow doesn’t settle so we never have to face the fiery truth inside us – solid and unmoving.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“When choosing between something you Know and something other people taught you to believe, choose what you Know.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“When women lose themselves, the world loses its way. We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world’s expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
“Your body is nature, and nature is pure. I know that’s hard for you to accept because you have been at war with your body for so long. You think your body is bad, but it is not. It’s wise. Your body will tell you things your mind will talk you out of. Your body is telling you what direction life is in. Try trusting it.”
Glennon Doyle
Untamed
