Untamed

by Glennon Doyle

We forgot how to know when we learned how to please. This is why we live hungry.

Every time I said to myself: I can’t take this anymore—I was wrong. The truth was that I could and did take it all—and I kept surviving.

When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.

I didn’t want to live my life without living my life.

What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.”

Buechner’s “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”

Defensiveness is for people who are afraid that what they have can be taken from them. You are a grown-ass woman.

what the world needs right now in order to evolve is to watch one woman at a time live her truest, most beautiful life without asking for permission or offering explanation.

If someone tells you who they are, consider how lucky you are to be graced with that gift.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Every time you pretend to be less than you are, you steal permission from other women to exist fully. Don’t mistake modesty for humility. Modesty is a giggly lie. An act. A mask. A fake game. We have no time for it.

Here’s to The Untamed: May we know them. May we raise them. May we love them. May we read them. May we elect them. May we be them.