Hearts Aren't Made of Glass Quotes

“When you look at the financials of quite a few of the world’s largest religions, they are in stark contrast to how most of the world lives. Almost half the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day. Seventy percent of those people are women.10 It’s extraordinarily difficult to reconcile that with the stockpile of money that many patriarchal religions are sitting on.”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“When we return to the divine female, we will stop trying to “save” women in other countries and realize that we have problems of our own to conquer. We will rediscover our rich herstory. We will realize that each of us is capable of becoming our own savior.”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“Honesty is not making excuses for yourself, an abusive partner, or a country that has less than a stellar history. It means speaking out. It means calling people on their bullshit.”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“Maybe it was me who put all the pressure on all those years. Perhaps I was the one who wanted to think that staying small all those years would protect me. Being a princess caused me to misuse nearly 30 years of my life. I now call them, “My Wasted Years as the Princess of Nothing.”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“To step outside of patriarchal thought means overcoming the deep-seated resistance within ourselves toward accepting ourselves and our knowledge as valid. It means getting rid of the great men in our heads and substituting them for ourselves, our sisters, our anonymous foremothers.” -Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“All who seek to know Me, know this... All your seeking and yearning will be in vain unless you understand the Mystery that if what you seek is not found within, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I will gather you to my breast at the end.” -Doreen Valiente, from “Charge of the Goddess”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“. I know from experience, that unkind words hurt long after they are said.”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“Women who join together with each other to deny the male god who cursed their sex and to reject his demands for obedience, praise, service and money automatically free themselves from one of the most potent psychological traps men ever set for them! Without god to tell them that they must serve and obey abusive husbands, their shackles turn to sand—and they can step away from what seemed a prison.” -Barbara G. Walker”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.” -Nina Simone”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“The past is not a burden; it is a scaffold, which brought us to this day. We are free to be whom we are—to create our own life out of our past and out of the present. We are our ancestors. When we can heal ourselves, we also heal our ancestors, our grandmothers, our grandfathers and our children. When we heal ourselves, we heal Mother Earth.” -Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“Patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency. Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which result in fear. This fear is expressed by the dominators through control and violence, and in subordinated people through passivity and repression of anger. The external conflict of hierarchy between dominants and subordinates becomes internalized in individuals, creating personal inner chaos, anxiety and duality. To quell the inner conflict people resort to addictive substances and behavior.” -Charlotte Davis Kasl, PhD, Many Roads, One Journey”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.” -bell hooks”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“When it comes to women, how far do patriarchal and exploitative capitalist values rely on women providing unwaged care, on which our society can freeload and from which it can wash its hands of financial responsibility?” -Vanessa Olorenshaw”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” -Katherine Mansfield”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.” -bell hooks”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance. The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.“ -Audre Lorde”
― Trista Hendren, Hearts Aren't Made of Glass