50 Best Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes

Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes inspire women to fight for their rights and to believe in themselves. We hope these quotes will empower you and bring clarity to your life.

Amanda Lovelace is an American poet who is a two-time winner of the Goodreads choice award for best poetry. She is famous for best known for her poetry collections that explore themes of abuse, trauma, survival, and feminism. Amanda is the author of the Women are some kind of magic series, most notably the Goodreads Choice Award-winning The Princess Saves Herself in This One.

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Born in 1990 in New Jersey, Lovelace began writing poetry at a young age as a way to cope with the abuse and trauma she experienced as a child.

In 2016, Lovelace self-published her first poetry collection, “The Princess Saves Herself in This One,” in the Women are some kind of magic series which quickly became a bestseller and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry Book. “The Princess Saves Herself in This One” is autobiographical and how she deals with her experiences while growing up. The collection, which is divided into four sections titled “the princess,” “the damsel,” “the queen,” and “you,” explores Lovelace’s personal journey from trauma to survival and empowerment.

Lovelace has since published several other poetry collections, including “The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One” (2018), “To Make Monsters Out of Girls” (2018), and “Break Your Glass Slippers” (2020), each of which delves deeper into the themes of her earlier work.

Lovelace’s poetry is known for its raw, honest, and unapologetic style, which resonates with readers who have experienced trauma, abuse, and other forms of oppression. Her work celebrates the resilience and strength of survivors and champions the cause of feminism and social justice. In recognition of her contribution to contemporary poetry, Lovelace has been awarded several honors and accolades, including the Women’s National Book Association Poetry Prize in 2020.

Her first book The Princess Saves Herself in This One in the Women are some kind of magic series was published in 2016. This first book of Amanda Lovelace’s is autobiographical and how she deals with her experiences while growing up.

According to Lovelace, this Women series aims “to show the rich inner lives of women with a focus on our hidden everyday struggles.”

Amanda Lovelace Poetry Books

  • The Princess Saves Herself in this One (2016)
  • The Witch Doesn’t Burn In This One
  • The Mermaid’s Voice Returns In This One (2019)
  • To Make Monsters Out Of Girls (2018)
  • Break Your Glass Slippers (2020)
  • To Drink Coffee With A Ghost
  • [Dis]Connected: Poems and Stories of Connection and Otherwise by many authors
  • Women Are Some Kind of Magic Boxed Set
  • Slay Those Dragons: A Journal for Writing Your Own Story
  • Shine Your Icy Crown
  • Dragonhearts by Nikita Gill, Trista Mateer, Amanda Lovelace

This is the list of Amanda Lovelace Poetry books. And here we are sharing some of the Best Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes from her best selling poetry books. We hope you will get inspired and bring a positive change in your life.

Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes

“To be a woman is to be warbound, knowing all the odds are stacked against you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“But what if the devil is just a woman who was banished to hell to stoke the flames as punishment for standing up to him?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes

“just because they don’t hit you doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse.   wouldn’t you think it a crime to look up at the night sky & tell the stars that they have no sparkle?   guess what? you shine brighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be.   – emotional abuse is still abuse.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“ah, life—
the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
& wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“silence has always been my loudest scream.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One0

Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes

“once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself.   – how’s that for a happily ever after?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes

“the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue.   – I didn’t realize I could be my own knight.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“if I ever have a daughter, the first thing I will teach her to love will be the word “no” & I will not let her feel guilty for using it.   – “no” is short for “fuck off.”  ”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some.   go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm.   make words your finest weapons— a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n.   – a survival plan of sorts.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes

 The Princess Saves Herself in this One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“sticks & stones never broke my bones, but words made me starve myself until you could see all of them.   -”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“when I die, do not waste a minute mourning me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives — a bookmad girl never dies.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

 The Princess Saves Herself in this One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“it is strange
how
sisters
can
be
saviors
or
strangers
&
sometimes
a bit of both.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“I am so glad
we were born
during the same
lifetime.
-I may not believe in fate, but I believe in you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“Ready for a harsh truth? Women don’t need your validation. We already have our own.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

 The Princess Saves Herself in this One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“no” is short for “fuck off.”  ”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

 The Princess Saves Herself in this One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“he did not teach me how to love myself, but he was the bridge that helped me get here.   – I thank the universe every day for you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“Curves and fat and rolls are a colossal ‘fuck you’ to the patriarchy – our accidental rebellion.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“It’s such a shame that you will finally have to learn that there are consequences to treating women like they’re nothing. You may have gotten to walk away, but a piece of me will follow you forever. Now, isn’t that romantic?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“you are your own lighthouse.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“I am not the one who has to change the way I think or the way I act. They are.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“i hope you can find it in your heart to be proud of the woman i have become in spite of you.   – still hoping for sugar instead of salt.  ”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“Fuck the idea of staying calm.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“Somehow, my soul knew your soul before we ever had the chance to meet.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“my self-worth shouldn’t feel like an act of bravery.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“Women endure because we aren’t given any other choice.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“Let it guide you into a grand love affair with yourself. Until the love becomes so second nature you need it no more.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“Sometimes friendship is the motherfucking prizes, so be grateful I let you in at all.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

 Break Your Glass Slippers Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“There is strength in vulnerability and true courage in accepting who you are.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

 Break Your Glass Slippers Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“fairy godmother says i don’t know if anyone has ever told you this, but: their lack of love for you does not make you any less loveable.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

“if you ever look at your reflection & feel the desire to tell yourself you’re not good enough, beautiful enough, skinny enough, curvy enough, then i think it’s about time you smashed that mirror to bits, don’t you? – use those fragments to make stepping-stones to your own self-love.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

 Break Your Glass Slippers Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“fuck the idea of staying calm. there’s no such thing as a kind uprising. there are no “please”s, no “thank you”s, & no justice without yelling.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“didn’t anyone ever warn you not to try to trick a girl who reads? she’s already seen everything.- don’t try to waste your time again.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“love does not need to be tragic in order for it to be good.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

 Break Your Glass Slippers Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“some destruction is beautiful.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“fairy godmother says you don’t need to look a certain way to deserve someone’s heart. no matter your shape— no matter your size— be proud of all the space your body dares to take up.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

 Break Your Glass Slippers Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“fairy godmother says some days, your body will feel like a cage. on those days, lace flowers through the bars.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

“you are sad now. you are not sad forever.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One

The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“do you
ever
find
yourself
nostalgic
for
the life
you never
got to
have?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One

The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“you are never directionless.  —the universe is always guiding you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

“You brought the needle & I brought the thread. We meant to mend our two broken hearts, but we ended up stitching them together.”
― Amanda Lovelace

The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“sometimes no closure tells us more than the closure ever could.- some people were never worth your words.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“no one has to understand what we are as long as we do. – we’re the only thing that matters.”
― Amanda Lovelace, to drink coffee with a ghost

“the only thing i can do is learn to live with the idea that i will never be cured. i will always be in the process of healing.
– making the most of it.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One

The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“wishing upon every shooting star isn’t the way your dreams will come true.  taking your fate into your own hands is how your dreams will come true.  so work hard.  work harder.  work even harder.  —make it happen.  ”
― Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

“Food is not the enemy -Society is”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

“here’s the tricky thing about fire: it stays soft even while it destroys everything in its path, but it’s up to you to make sure that it doesn’t burn the good with the rot. – we can’t lose our empathy.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“Womanhood doesn’t have to be this twisted competition.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

“she’s always checking in on people, even though they never do the same in return. whether they simply don’t care enough or consider her to be better armored for this life than they are, she’s not entirely certain. sometimes her mind goes to the darkest of places—that place where she wonders if any of them would notice if she disappeared altogether one night. —forgotten.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One Poems by Amanda Lovelace

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Her debut book The Princess Saves Herself in This One is quite a masterpiece. We hope you will apply Amanda Lovelace Poems and Quotes to your life and save yourself from all the negative things or the people who put you down. Stand up for yourself and fight.

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