63 Quotes by Ariel Gore

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we’re doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

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.

When I was a kid, my mother’s parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn’t going to come.

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 in their lives working out. There’s some rebellion in that, but there’s also some deep reflection.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It’s one of the things that makes me happy.

If you don’t like the fairy tales you’ve been handed, Ariel, you don’t have to conform to them. You can reauthor them. You can write your story however you choose.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older – each year we’re more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

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