Glennon Doyle
American author, activist, and founder of the nonprofit Together Rising, whose 2020 memoir Untamed has sold over 2.5 million copies and become one of the defining contemporary texts on spiritual feminism, recovery, and the work of becoming truthfully oneself. Born in 1976 in Burke, Virginia, she is a recovering bulimic and alcoholic whose earlier books — Carry On, Warrior (2013) and Love Warrior (2016, an Oprah's Book Club selection) — chronicled her journey from addiction through Christian motherhood to the public unraveling and reconstitution of her marriage and faith. Untamed brought her sustained voice on intuition, sovereignty, and the inner cheetah to a global audience. With her wife, soccer star Abby Wambach, and her sister Amanda, she also hosts the podcast We Can Do Hard Things.
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Quotes by Glennon Doyle
100 quotes“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.”
“There is no scarcity of love. We are infinite.”
“Cheetahs were not made to be tamed.”
“Life is unbearable. We can also be unbearable. We can also be unbreakable.”
“The world needs the unbridled woman who is herself.”
“Every time you are given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else.”
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”
“The braver we are, the luckier we get.”
“Real life is messy. Real life is hard. Real life is beautiful.”
“Stop being good. Be alive instead.”
“There is a voice inside you. It is your voice. Listen.”
“You are not what they made you. You are who you choose to become.”
“The most powerful, important, magical force in the universe is a woman who knows herself.”
“In the deepest sense, every relationship is a relationship with yourself.”
“Love is not a feeling. Love is a series of choices.”
“You are loved. You are wanted. You are enough.”
“Pain is just a traveling professor. Stay with it long enough and it teaches you something.”
“Every time you do not make a decision, you are making a decision.”
“We can do hard things.”
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