Gratitude Quote by Roxane Gay

“If I must share my story , I want to do so on my terms , without the attention that inevitably follows . I…

— Roxane Gay

“I never sat down and decided to become a story. I just wanted to tell one. I never wanted to be thought of as…

— pleasefindthis

“I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even…

— Kimberly Nalen

“I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story…

— Golda Poretsky

“We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and…

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

“Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They…

— George Saunders

“What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to…

— Tim O'Brien

“As ambitious women, we need to tell one another our stories. We need to tell the truth about our lives.”

— Debra Condren

“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted…

— Joss Whedon

“We are all the heroes of our own stories, and one of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage…

— Rebecca Solnit

“You are far more than your worst day, your worst experience, your worst season, dear one. You are more than the sorriest decision you…

— Jen Hatmaker

“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person…

— Lena Dunham