Quotes from Ariel Gore

I didn't know if the cure for my life was to lie to everyone about everything or to become brutally honest.

Looking out over that poisoned water, it seemed like such a scam of anti-earth abuser culture to teach people that they cause their own cancer with negative thinking. Maybe this desert lake had been guilty of negative thinking?

Shame can look a lot like rude.

Maybe I could rewrite the fairy tale of my life, transforming every blow to the head, and every cut to the cunt, and every crucified doll into some kind of an initiation.

Remember when we were witches.

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.

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

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

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

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

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

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

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

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

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.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

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

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.