Women are Scary Quotes

“The truth is, so many of us are messy and cracked. We're just afraid to talk about it.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“I believe that we are better together. We make each other better moms, better humans. We need each other, because mothering is just too darn hard.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“Mothers are strong and powerful, and when we join together in relationship, mountains move.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“We aren't just dating moms to help pass the time while our kids are little. That's part of it, that's a perk, but there's more. We date moms and do life together, so that when life gets hard, we have support. We have people who truly know us and are invested in us and love us no matter what.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“We need those friends who can see our homes in all their messy glory, who can see us wearing jammie pants and no makeup. If you can trust them with your real face, that's a step to trusting them with your real life. We need friends who can see our homes and faces when they're messy, and we need friends who can see our parenting and marriages when they're messy.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“They are not our Jesus. But he can use them to speak truth into our lives and hold us together when we're falling apart. My friends aren't my Savior, but sometimes he uses them to point me to him when I can't find my way.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“When your life falls off the edge and into a trench, fourth-basers don't just throw you a rope. They crawl down in the trench with you.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“Friends are fallible. They have their own lives. They are not our Jesus and we cannot suck all the life out of them in an effort to feel whole and loved. So we won't put all our faith and hope in them, but we will appreciate the incredible support and encouragement they provide.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“There's freedom in learning to be wrong. You give the people around you permission to be right.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“Forgiveness doesn't always mean togetherness. Sometimes walking away from a relationship is the only way to find peace.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“We aren't just moms. We are just a connected organism of nurturing world changers. And that is just awesome.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“I suffer from heat-induced, Hulk-like rage syndrome, so I’m not going to make my best impression with my eyeballs frying on my face. Know thyself.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends

“In A Life That Says Welcome, Karen Ehman writes about offering hospitality, not entertainment. She says: Entertaining puts the emphasis on you and how you can impress others. Offering hospitality puts the emphasis on others and strives to meet their physical and spiritual needs so that they feel refreshed, not impressed, when they leave your home.”
― Melanie Dale, Women are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends