Paula Houseman > Paula's Quotes

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Whatever makes you weird, is probably your greatest asset.”
― Joss Whedon

“So, why do you write these strong female characters?

Because you’re still asking me that question."

[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”
― Joss Whedon

“The gods have become our diseases.”
― C.G. Jung

“It was an interesting night. I’d never been to a non-Jewish wedding, and Phelan assured me that this one was not the norm. The bride and groom got pissed as newts—he ended up passed out, sprawled face down in his own vomit, while she did the cancan on the bridal table, flashing something old, which apparently was nothing new.”
― Paula Houseman, Odyssey In A Teacup

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
― Anne Lamott

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
― Anne Lamott

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”
― Anne Lamott