“If you are uncomfortable-in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused-you don’t have a problem, you have a life.” Brave means, in every uncertain moment, turning inward, feeling for the Knowing, and speaking it out loud.” “The beauty industry convinces us that our thighs, frizz, skin, fingegrnails, lips, eyelashes, leg hair, and wrinkles are repulsive and must be covered and manipulated, so we learn to not trust the bodies we live in.” “When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.” Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren’t waiting patiently enough.” Ignorant privilege is thinking you’re there because you hit a triple. Because a very effective way to control women is to convince women to control themselves.” That is the end goal of every patriarchal culture. “The epitome of womanhood is to lose one’s self completely. I labeled it in my phone as a list of truths for my little girls: Each time I saw something poignant, I wrote it down. It made me want to spend time with my little girls discussing what they will inevitably face as they grow up. Ten is when children begin to hide who they are in order to become what the world expects them to be.” I have two daughters who are not yet 10 years old, and as Doyle explained in the book, “Ten is when we learn to be good girls and real boys.
I have to admit that the thought of my finding anything relevant in Glennon Doyle’s series of essays about the taming of women by an antiquated patriarchal society-as well as her journey to freedom through the reconstruction of her new family with soccer star, Abby Wambach-seemed dubious.
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