Jennifer Armintrout famous quotes

03-24-2025

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Love #Women #Want
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Inspirational #Strength #Grief
I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Strong #Hands #Damsel In Distress
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Grief #Emotional #Events
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Justice #Diversity #Allies
The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Attitude #Self #Position
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Korea #Horror #Satire
Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Impossible #Easier #Brushes
I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Sorry #Fun #Cutting
I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Men #Years #Two
Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Strong #Heaven #Earth
Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Cutting #Thinking #Want
One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Dog #Men #Hair
I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Sorry #Doors #Mind
It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Mess
No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Butterfly #Night #Years
If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Way #Next #Faces
Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Acceptance #Body #Apologizing

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