Rebecca Walker quotes

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
-- Rebecca Walker

Source : Rebecca Walker (2008). “Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence”, p.142, Penguin

#People Quotes #Showing Up Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds us, sets our stance. But what we remember is past, it no longer exists, and yet we hold on to it, live by it, surrender so much control to it. What do we become when we put down the scripts written by history and memory, when each person before us can be seen free of the cultural or personal narrative we've inherited or devised? When we, ourselves, can taste that freedom.”
-- Rebecca Walker

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“Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.”
-- Rebecca Walker

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“Sex can look like love if you don't know what love looks like.”
-- Rebecca Walker

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“One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty”
-- Rebecca Walker

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“Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.”
-- Rebecca Walker

Source : Rebecca Walker (2008). “Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence”, p.34, Penguin

#Growing Up Quotes #Want Quotes #Determined Quotes

“My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.”
-- Rebecca Walker

#Mother Quotes #Important Quotes #Way Quotes

“Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.”
-- Rebecca Walker

#Judgement Quotes #Shame Quotes #Individual Quotes

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

“You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge”

“I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.”

“Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.”

Source : Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.226, Greenleaf Book Group

“To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.”

“Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.”

“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”

Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.

“The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.”