Ariel Gore Quotes

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

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.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

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

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

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

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

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

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

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

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

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Nourish the world with your words, yo.

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.

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

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

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

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

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

No one ever does the last thing on their list.