Sarina > Sarina's Quotes

“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be bitchy, toxic, or competitive. This myth is like heels and purses--pretty but designed to SLOW women down.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“I walk, all day, across the heaven-verging field.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“Yet, distantly, or sometimes not so distantly, I can hear that child’s voice—I can feel its hope, or its distress.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“Everything I knew about rape I’d learned from the Scriptures.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, the women were waking up.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Ten-Year Nap

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx