63 Quotes by Ariel Gore

Maybe what shame needs to stay alive is the consent of the shamed.

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

No one ever does the last thing on their list.

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 how new relationships usually begin.

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

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

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

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 that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

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