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Sara Benincasa Quotes

Total quotes: 4
“I gave up nice a long time ago. Nice did me no good as a woman. Niceness is a lie they teach you to keep you sweet and compliant while you’re screaming inside. You know what I picked instead? Kindness. I chose to be kind. Kind means I respect your boundaries and you respect mine.”
— Sara Benincasa, How To Treat A Lady On The Internet – The Stories
Tagged: Quote of the Moment, kindness, Niceness, Personality, Fairness, Being a girl online
“I was raised Catholic, and ritual will always be a powerful act in my life. It’s why I enjoy my daily routines of nurturing skincare and light witchcraft.”
— Sara Benincasa, Chrissy Teigen’s Headbands Helped Me Get Sober
Tagged: Sobriety, Sober, Alcohol, Life Changes, Life
“Real artists have day jobs, and night jobs, and afternoon jobs. Real artists make things other than art, and then they make time to make art because art is screaming to get out from inside them. Screaming, or begging, or gently whispering.

Don’t ever let them tell you you’re not a success. Don’t ever let them tell you you’re not good enough. Don’t ever let them tell you you’re not the real deal.”
— Sara Benincasa, Real Artists Have Day Jobs – Sara Benincasa – Medium
Tagged: You're An Artist, Powerful Words, Making Art, Art, Artists
“I’ve got plenty of writer friends who’ve gotten bigger and better reviews. And then there are folks who would likely look at me and say I was ahead of them. But the truth is the sun shines on all of us and the rain falls on all of us and we all die, so let’s just skip over the part where you stew for six days because your friend Daria got a book deal and you didn’t. Stew for six minutes, and then go use the energy of the stewing to write something.”
— Sara Benincasa, A Brief Letter To A Worried Writer – The Stories – Medium
Tagged: How to be a writer, Writing, comparison, Before and after, Quote of the Moment
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