Staying Quotes by Ariel Gore

“When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself…

— Ariel Gore

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

— Ariel Gore

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

— Ariel Gore

“No one ever does the last thing on their list.”

— Ariel Gore

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

— Ariel Gore

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal…

— Ariel Gore

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments…

— Ariel Gore

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

— Ariel Gore

“I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down.”

— Ariel Gore

“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it…

— Ariel Gore

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

— Ariel Gore

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

— Ariel Gore