# Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

- Author: [Tom Robbins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues

## Quotes

> Of course I've contradicted myself. I always do. Only cretins and logicians don't contradict themselves. And in their consistency, they contradict life.

p. 268 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/of-course-ive.md)

> Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

p. 255 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/sometimes-those-things.md)

> I set an example. That's all anyone can do. I'm sorry the cowgirls didn't pay better attention, but I couldn't force them to notice me. I've lived most of my entire adult life outside the law, and never have I compromised with authority. But neither have I gone out and picked fights with authority. That's stupid. They're waiting for that; they invite it; it helps keep them powerful. Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided. And it's fairly easy to do all three. If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

p. 416 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/i-set-an-example.md)

> So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/so-you-think.md)

> There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

p. 263 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/there-are-many.md)

> Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/fire-is-the.md)

> If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it — which is what mothers do with their children — then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

p. 211 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/if-were-ever.md)

> Love is dope, not chicken soup.

p. 174 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/love-is-dope.md)