Surpassing Certainty Quotes

“No one can heal you. You must learn to be your own company, your own cure. You cannot retreat into someone else for fulfillment.”
― Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

“We have continuity in our bodies, which hold experiences that never leave us, experiences our bodies conceal so we can keep going. They hold tightly to them - until we have confidence to trust our bodies again, to loosen their grasp.”
― Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

“GENERATIONS OF GIRLS HAVE been told that the only way they can survive is to remain silent, go unnoticed and blend in.”
― Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

“My survival depends on my ability to speak truth to power, not just for myself, but for us. I’m committed to getting ours. It requires me to relay how I struggled with living, dreaming, loving, fucking, being seen, and simply being in my body, in this world. This is a universal experience.”
― Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

“Too many nights had ended with me upset by harsh truths that stripped me of my right to disclose and self-define on my own terms. The truth is a whip when wielded by a malicious mouth, lashing you into obedience and confinement, a stinging reminder that despite your best efforts, you are still captive to others.”
― Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

“We have continuity in our bodies, which hold experiences that never leave us, experiences our bodies conceal so we can keep going. They hold tightly to them—until we have confidence to trust our bodies again, to loosen their grasp. This relaxation never came to me. My body did not rest. It did not yield. It remained clenched for nearly all of my twenties.”
― Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

“We couldn’t make forever, but forever isn’t love’s sole ambition. The goal is to be impacted, to be changed forever.”
― Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me