524 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else.

When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.