Beard in Hiding Quotes

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ​— ​Betty Friedan”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Why can’t a woman’s words count for more than a man’s violence?”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Raise your voice until you are heard. Look however you want, be whoever you want, and demand people pay attention to you. Stop taking what you’re given, and demand the space in life you want.” ​— ​K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you “I’m not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.” ​— ​Dr. Brené Brown”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“I loved bright colors. If the Good Lord saw fit to give us colors, I felt the least we could do was wear them proudly.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Freedom at the direct expense of another person’s wellbeing was the worst kind of evil. It was selfishness masquerading as liberty, hypocrisy wearing the clothes of perseverance and grit. I wanted none of it.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“People who long for their youth, for a simpler time, are really just longing for an existence of blissful ignorance, where other people’s struggles and suffering are conveniently kept quiet so as not to ruin their good time, or their ability to sleep at night. No such time has existed for me.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Have you seen what happened in Portugal? Drug-related deaths down by 90%. Who is the real bad guy? The drug dealer? Or the government that profits from making them a crime?”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“don’t want to have to know how to kick butt. I want people to listen to me, to my words, I want them to mean something. Why can’t a woman’s words count for more than a man’s violence?”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Raise your voice until you are heard. Look however you want, be whoever you want, and demand people pay attention to you. Stop taking what you’re given, and demand the space in life you want.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“didn’t throw hissy fits with those in the hospitality industry. Waitstaff were some of the hardest working folks and certainly didn’t deserve all the petty complaints they received”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” ​— ​Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“I know, I know, mothers are weird. But we can't just stop wanting to nurture and fuss over our chickens simply because they've hatched. That instinct will always be there until the day I die.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Bethany Winston used to say, If you don’t want someone to get your goat, don’t let them know where it’s tied.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.” ​— ​Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Once we were in Listvyanka, on Lake Baikal, safe from US extradition, maybe I’d breathe easier.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“I chuckled at the young man's certainty. What did he know? Twenty-nothing, at the start of everything.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Most people your age long for their youth.” “People who long for their youth, for a simpler time, are really just longing for an existence of blissful ignorance, where other people’s struggles and suffering are conveniently kept quiet so as not to ruin their good time, or their ability to sleep at night. No such time has existed for me.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Merryville”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Merryville Mall”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Diane had been using a long-term rental car for driving to the safehouse since I’d pointed out how recognizable her car was. Presently, I drove. I’d left my bike hidden at the turnoff.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.” ​— ​Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“I made a pan of chicken in rice.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Where my daddy had never finished college, failing out and being rescued over and over by his family,”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“And I’ve never had any interest in pursuing more than woman at the same time.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“champagne cocktail”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” ​— ​Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding

“Meanwhile, she peaked at me, nibbling her bottom lip, looking sinfully gorgeous in her little nightie that showcased every delectable curve.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Hiding