Ariel Gore

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

— Ariel Gore

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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]…

— Ariel Gore

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

— 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

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something.…

— Ariel Gore

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

— Ariel Gore

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

— Ariel Gore

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to…

— Ariel Gore

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body…

— Ariel Gore

“All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well,…

— Ariel Gore

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

— Ariel Gore

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

— Ariel Gore

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

— Ariel Gore

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

— Ariel Gore

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

— Ariel Gore

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

“It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in…

— Ariel Gore