Being bad had almost killed me. But so had being good
lk 100
If you are uncomfortable-in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused-you don’t have a problem, you have life.
lk 93
What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of himself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.
lk 75
Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention by whispering: “Not this.”
lk 67
Each of us was born to bring forth something that has never existed: a way of being, a family, an idea, art, community- something brand new.
lk 66
Perhaps for us, …, the deepest truth is not what we can see but what we can imagine
lk 65
Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to place they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.
lk 60
This is the most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next precise thing, one thing at a time, without asking permission or offering explanation.
lk 60
When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.
lk 56
Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming.
lk 52
I began to insist upon my right and responsibility to feel it all, even when taking the time and energy for feeling made me a little less efficient, a little less convenient, a little less pleasant.
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