Bonnie Garmus Quotes

Take a moment for yourself. Every day.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.

While we may be born into families, it doesn’t necessarily mean we belong to them.

Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change – and change is what we’re chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others’ opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladies. Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what you will change. And then get started.

Sometimes I think that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn’t make it past noon.

Some things needed to stay in the past because the past was the only place they made sense.

Physical suffering bonds people in a way that everyday life can’t.

People will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problems. It’s a lot easier to have faith in something you can’t see, can’t touch, can’t explain, and can’t change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can.

Often the best way to deal with the bad is to turn it on end – use it as a strength, refuse to allow the bad thing to define you. Fight it.

Not every woman wants to be a mother. More to the point, not every woman should be.

No surprise. Idiots make it into every company. They tend to interview well.

Nature works on a higher intellectual plane. We can learn more, we can go further, but to accomplish this, we must throw open the doors. Too many brilliant minds are kept from scientific research thanks to ignorant biases like gender and race. It infuriates me and it should infuriate you. Science has big problems to solve: famine, disease, extinction. And those who purposefully close the door to others using self-serving, outdated cultural notions are not only dishonest, they’re knowingly lazy.