Jeannine Quotes & Sayings

I'm talking to you in bed at one in the morning. How mad can I be?
I picture him there, in what, flannel pajamas? Underwear? Nothing at all? — Jeannine Garsee

God, I love spending time with you." His smile eases me. "Don't get mad at me, but I'm going to say something and I have no apologies for saying it." I raise my eyebrows in curiosity. "You look fucking hot in that bikini. — Jeannine Colette

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'. — Jeannine Atkins

Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

Peace on earth begins with birth. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

Ours is a love people write stories about... — Jeannine Allison

Social marketing is distinguished from other planning frameworks discussed in this book by four principles: (1) a commitment to create satisfying exchanges, (2) the use of marketing's conceptual framework to design interventions, (3) a data-based consumer orientation, and (4) segmentation of populations and careful selection of target audiences. — M. Jeannine Coreil

If I'm not experiencing an episode then it's just the fear that one is right around the corner. I have no escape. — Jeannine Allison

But that night I thought, in the simplest of terms, maybe love was not wanting to say goodbye. — Jeannine Allison

Names and knowledge change, the way the turning
world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound
even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock. — Jeannine Atkins

Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

I wanted to tell all the little girls who were imagining their weddings not to fantasize about the flowers or the dress. They didn't matter... It was the look that Hunter was giving me, that was what little girls should wish for. — Jeannine Allison

I want to give you all of me. But will you want all of me when you realize I'm in pieces? — Jeannine Allison

Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both. — Jeannine Allison

These ears aren't to be trusted.
The keening in the night, didn't you hear?
Once I believed all the stories didn't have endings,
but I realized the endings were invented, like zero,
had yet to be imagined.
The months come around again,
and we are in the same place;
full moons, cherries in bloom,
the same deer, the same frogs,
the same helpless scratching at the dirt.
You leave poems I can't read
behind on the sheets,
I try to teach you songs made of twigs and frost.
you may be imprisoned in an underwater palace;
I'll come riding to the rescue in disguise.
Leave the magic tricks to me and to the teakettle.
I've inhaled the spells of willow trees,
spat them out as blankets of white crane feathers.
Sleep easy, from behind the closet door
I'll invent our fortunes, spin them from my own skin.

(from, The Fox-Wife's Invitation) — Jeannine Hall Gailey

What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives? — Jeannine Parvati Baker

I never had a choice in loving you. I was born to love you. All I've ever had to do was find you. — Jeannine Allison

There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders. — Jeannine Atkins

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think. — Jeannine Garsee

Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.
And that's why Mom is always so afraid. If we don't know what made me sick in the first place, how can anyone guarantee I won't flip out again? — Jeannine Garsee

I love you because you help me love everything else. — Jeannine Allison

I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment."
"I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker. — Jeannine Garsee

Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

Maybe you don't need to understand her; maybe you just need to want to. — Jeannine Allison

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

There's a crack in my mind,
That I don't know how to heal.
There are demons in my head,
People tell me are not real.

The voices are my own,
Speaking words I don't believe.
Convincing me I'm worthless,
And that everyone will leave.

You want me to be better,
Don't you think I want the same?
But you've convinced yourself it's nothing,
Or that I'm the one to blame.

So I'll tell you that I'm 'fine,'
Because that's all you want to hear.
And I'll conceal it with a smile,
While hiding all the fear.

I'll bury all the feelings,
And I'll cut out all the pain.
But that won't mean I'm healed,
I've just chosen to not 'complain.'

Because being sad was only half of it,
And it was not the half to kill.
The downfall began when I started to feel nothing,
When I slowly lost my will. — Jeannine Allison

Sometimes we think we want to be alone, when really all we want is the right person to be alone with. — Jeannine Allison

No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night. — Jeannine Atkins

Can Aa-a-ana-liese come out and play? — Jeannine Garsee

I'd take your tears over someone else's smile any day. I just want to be wherever you are. Even if that's crying on the bathroom floor. — Jeannine Allison

Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves. — Jeannine Atkins

This is exactly who I was meant to be. — Jeannine Garsee

You're the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You're the light people crawl through darkness for. You're the good that balances out all the bad. — Jeannine Allison

Your children need to know they are loved and safe. Everything else is adult business. — Jeannine Lee

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

My love for Sherry had been a shout across the silent night. Standing back here, in this town with her, was like being in a canyon. That shout became an echo, and that love sounded like a deafening never-ending roar. — Jeannine Allison

But when a smart, gorgeous, feisty girl entered your life, you didn't ask questions, you didn't second-guess, you took her. And I'm taking her. — Jeannine Allison

If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day! — Jeannine M. Luby

Alice in Darkness

Forget tears. Chasing
white animals with timepieces
in this drug-trip landscape
can only lead to more of same.
Hedgehogs, playing cards, paintbrushes:
full of undisclosed danger.
Didn't your mother tell you
not to kiss strangers?
That Cheshire smile shouldn't fool you.
Pull your skirt down.
Your nails are growing so fast
you're hardly human.
Alice, fight your version of Bedlam
as long as you can.
Sleep the sweet dream away
from that gooey looking glass, or mushrooms,
or the fear of your own body.
Forget what the night tastes like.
Stop wondering through the shadows,
holding your neck out
for the slice of the axe. — Jeannine Hall Gailey

We're told perfection doesn't exist, but that couldn't be true. Maybe perfection couldn't last, but it certainly could occur. It had to, because as I stood there staring at this beautifully flawed girl and realized she was mine, no moment had ever felt so perfect. — Jeannine Allison

Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said. — Jeannine Atkins

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug. — Jeannine Atkins

Strong things had a breaking point, too.
Strong girls got hurt, too.
They cried.
They yelled.
They broke. — Jeannine Allison

I know I can't fix you, but I can hold you. I can hold you so tight you'll forget you feel broken because I'll be holding all your broken pieces together. — Jeannine Allison

I said Jeannine why are you unhappy?
I'm not unhappy.
You have everything (I said). What is there that you want and haven't got?
I want to die.
Do you want to be an airplane pilot? is that it? And they won't let you? Did you have a talent for mathematics, which they squelched? Did they refuse to let you be a truck driver? What is it?
I want to live. — Joanna Russ

Solitude my solace, wrapped around me
like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books
and I can sing as loud as I please all day and night.
[from the poem, Rapunzel: I like the Quiet] — Jeannine Hall Gailey