The Trouble with Hope and Glory Quotes

“Seriously, people? Let’s move away from celebrating women’s beauty, flagellating them for their flaws, and let’s take a look at the more important parts of them—their talents, brains, thoughts, and feelings. Because beauty fades.”
― Melissa Bourbon, The Trouble with Hope and Glory

“Ghandi. He didn’t say ‘be the change’. He said, “We mirror the world. All our tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change—“

“Oh. My. God.” Jeremy scrubbed his face with one hand. “I really don’t care what Ghandi said. What is your point?”

Steady breathe. Slow and calm. “My point,” I said, “is that we have to change ourselves in order to change the world.”
― Melissa Bourbon, The Trouble with Hope and Glory