Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes

• Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Mean, Heart, Ideas

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• I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Laughter, Heartache, Desperate

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• How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Mystery

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• You are not broken. You break again
  and again because
  
  that's what breaking means.
  To be whole.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Mean, Broken, Break

  Brenda Shaughnessy (2008). “Human Dark with Sugar”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

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• Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Mean, Despair, Emotion

  "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

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• What if all possible
  pain was only the grief of truth?

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Pain, Grief, What If

  Brenda Shaughnessy (2012). “Our Andromeda”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press

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• Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Cake, Life And Death, Alex

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• I've been melted into something
  too easy to spill. I make more
  and more of myself in order
  to make more and more of the baby.
  He takes it, this making. And somehow
  he's made more of me, too.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Baby, Order, Easy

  Brenda Shaughnessy (2012). “Our Andromeda”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press

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