In Praise of Difficult Women Quotes

“Don’t waste time trying to change your anger into something that makes you likable; you will only wind up disliking yourself. Write your rage, paint it, film it, dance it, lyricize it, poeticize it. You don’t have to be good, just honest.”
― Karen Karbo, In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

“It’s often said that girls who grow up to be women at ease with themselves had loving, nurturing relationships with their fathers. To be appreciated and accepted by the first man in our lives gives us confidence to march that self out into the world, to feel that we will not be shunned for being both a woman and a complex human being.”
― Karen Karbo, In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

“There's only one very good life, Diana wrote. And that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”
― Karen Karbo, In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

“A difficult woman, as I define her, is a person who believes that her needs, passions and goals are at least as important as those of everyone around her. In many cases, she doesn't even believe they're more important... but simply AS important. A difficult woman is also a woman who doesn't believe the expectations of the culture in which she lives are more important than what she knows to be true about herself. She is a woman who accepts that sometimes the cost of being fully human is upsetting people.”
― Karen Karbo, In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules