Cinderella Liberator Quotes

“When you love someone a lot, they just look like love.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

“But there isn't actually a most beautiful person in the world, because there are so many kinds of beauty. Some people love roundness and softness, and other people love sharp edges and strong muscles. Some people like thick hair like a lion's mane, and other people like thin hair that pours down like an inky waterfall, and some people love someone so much they forget what they look like. Some people think the night sky full of stars at midnight is the most beautiful thing imaginable, some people think it's a forest in snow, and some people... Well, there are a lot of people with a lot of ideas about beauty. And love. When you love someone a lot, they just look like love.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

“The blue fairy godmother opened the door, and asked her if she'd had a good time, and she said Yes, and No, and It was very interesting to see all the fancy clothes and the fancy plates with fancy cakes and the fancy mirrors and the fancy lights. And then she said, It was even more interesting to see lizards become footwomen and mice become horses.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

“There is always enough for everyone, if you share it properly, or if it has been shared properly before you got there. There is enough food, enough love, enough homes, enough time, enough crayons, enough people to be friends with each other.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

“The fairy godmother replied that true magic is to help each thing become its best and most free self.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

“...nobody is good or valuable because of who their parents are, or bad because their parents are bad. They are as good and valuable as they are in their own words and deeds...”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

“...and if the stepmother was irredeemable, it's because she's all of us: insatiable, craving and its underbelly, selfishness incarnate. She's who we all are when we feel poor amid plenty.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator