My beautiful Hayley, the Rashida to my Amy, platonic love of my life. In return for your Ask Iād like you to list IN ORDER your top 5 (or however many depending how carried away you get) Amy Poehler quotes and why you love them. Love u xx
wow!!! how dare u!!!! thereās so many!!!!!!!
1. āHold on when things feel stormy.ā For some reason, this quote has really stuck with me. Whenever Iām going through a rough patch, or I get that super tight, horrible feeling in my chest, I repeat those words in my head. Itās hard to explain, but it feels like something physical - something toĀ āhold onā to - for me, and it helps get me through whatever it is I need to get through. I genuinely believe that those six words are the best gift Amy has given me.Ā
2.Ā āJust kind of take it bird by bird.ā Which is actually a quote taken from the book,Ā āBird by Birdā by Anne LamottĀ but the context in which Amy talks about it really resonated with me. And I will forever be grateful that she introduced me the concept/idea. Itās very calming to remind yourself to take things bird by bird when everything is starting to feel like too much.
3. āIt takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.āĀ taken from Yes Please. Because this was something I did have to learn, and am still learning. And itās been a pretty important journey for me to find my voice.Ā
4.Ā āCrying gets the sadness out.āĀ Amy says this is in one of her Ask Amy videos and references that itās fromĀ āFree to Be...You and Meā. Itās really helped me to lean into crying - especially when it comes to grief, and that was an important lesson for me to learn. Spoiler alert: actively trying not to cry in a grief counselling session when youāve lost your best friend is ridiculous. Cry. It helps.
5. āAnd I think Leslie Knope would love to have given meĀ this star, and in many ways she has.āĀ Because honestly? I think about this sentence CONSTANTLY and it always makes me emotional x1000000.Ā
Bonus One: āI donāt care about Star Wars. And I never fucking did.ā Not that I have anything against Star Wars at all, just because itās absolutely hilarious. Context: Sisters was being released the same day as Star Wars, so it was being brought up in basically every press interview theyād done. Eventually she snapped (and I donāt blame her).
Bonus Two:Ā āIf you donāt eat pussy, keep walking.ā
Bonus Three:Ā āYeah.ā in response to being asked if sheās dating Rashida Jones.











