a little Glennon Doyle feature…

"Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself." - Glennon Doyle, Untamed 

Inspired by Heidi quoting Glennon Doyle's book Untamed on our podcast two weeks ago, we're doing something a little different: sharing my favourite quotes from this feminist book.

For context, Glennon went from trying to fix an unhappy, unfaithful heterosexual marriage, to marrying the love of her life, Abby, a woman. She's an author, mother, recovered alcoholic, and she's generally pretty awesome. 

I highly recommend Untamed. Here are my fav quotes: 

🩸what is the truest, most beautiful lives you can imagine? Write it down, and reach for that.

🩸if you are uncomfortable—in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused —you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.

🩸to be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself. 

🩸Why do women find it honorable to dismiss ourselves? Why do we decide that denying our longing is the responsible thing to do? Why do we believe that what will thrill and fulfill us will hurt our people? Why do we mistrust ourselves so completely? [...] 

We weren’t born distrusting and fearing ourselves. That was part of our taming. 

🩸What the world needs is more women who have quit fearing themselves and started trusting themselves. What the world needs is masses of women who are entirely out of control.

🩸Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself. 

Time to untame ourselves,

Love, Capu

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