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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.

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

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

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

Brenda Shaughnessy
Mystery

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

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.

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

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

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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