Being Alive Quotes

Being alive is an answer and never an option to the survival questions.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

To wander is to be alive.

When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the fact that I was born as a woman because I got to make my choices. Who did you chose to be?

Man is the only creature for whom being alive isn't enough.

I instinctively knew that he was dangerous, in the way that intensely alive people sometimes are.

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.