10 Quotes by Ariel Lawhon

I am the same but different, and I greet this new reflection with a nod of acceptance. There is metal in my spine and there are fractures in my soul. I resemble Garrow now. I have been changed by war.

Politicians and children have two speeds: running and asleep.

Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.

As women we are taught that bravery and valor exist in the grand gestures. We believe that kindness is weakness and arrogance is the same as courage. But it is not so. Sometimes restraint proves the mettle of a man’s heart more accurately.

I would tell him what it felt like to stand in that stadium and watch Jesse Owens beat Adolf Hitler’s best runners to win the gold medal. And then, what it felt like, afterward, to interview the son of black sharecroppers from Alabama knowing that he had just changed the world. I would tell him about standing in the shadow of the Hindenburg as it passed over the field.

Taking a woman by force makes a man no better than the rooster in Tobolsk. It simply makes him an animal.

This is how the human heart beats, a twisted staccato of love and envy, anger and relief.

Love is a choice. It is the active choosing of good for another person. But like? It is a gift and it cannot be forced.

The thing about lipstick, the reason it’s so powerful, is that it is distracting. Men don’t see the flashes of anger in your eyes or your clenched fists when you wear it. They see a woman, not a warrior, and that gives me the advantage.