Summary and Analysis of Love Warrior: A Memoir

This elegant, moving memoir is about one woman’s marriage but also much more than that. Glennon writes about a hunger for love that all of us feel and the only food that ultimately feeds us. She understands the unique relationship between spiritual and romantic love, and in finding one, she masters the other. Truly a wonderful book.” —Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

essential components of true beauty.

Her definition of beautiful is not the one she grew up with; it has nothing to do with thinness, coolness, blond hair, or certain clothes. Instead, Glennon comes to see self-knowledge and kindness as the e

“Women who are concerned with being pretty think about what they look like, but women who are concerned with being beautiful think about what they are looking at. They are taking it all in. They are taking in the whole beautiful world and making all that beauty theirs to give away to others.”

the only way out of pain is through it—and that to love someone in pain means to sit with him or her within that pain.

“We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other’s pain. Maybe that’s why we all feel like failures so often—because we all have the wrong job description for love.”

warrior.” As a woman, Glennon is a warrior, capable of facing pain and learning from it.

“Pain and love are places I must be brave enough to visit. My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there—because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. I was born to do this. I am a Warrior.

What I Know:
1. What you don’t know, you’re not supposed to know yet.
2. More will be revealed.
3. Crisis comes from the word meaning to sift. Let it all fall away and you’ll be left with what matters.
4. What matters most cannot be taken away.
5. Just do the next right thing one thing at a time: That’ll take you all the way home.”

She surrenders to her pain, anger, and loneliness and is pleased to learn that she not only can she survive, she’ll also be stronger for it.