Ariel Gore Quotes

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake…
• With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.
• Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks…
• Settling other people's land is an American tradition.
• Nourish the world with your words, yo.
• Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.
• A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders…
• One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.
• I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
• Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.
• Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
• When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.
• In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
• Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.
• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
• I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's…
• Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for…
• My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at…
• New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.
• The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was…

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