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When Women Were Dragons QUOTES

When Women Were Dragons QUOTES

1 " Men, after all, delight in nothing so much as to recast themselves in the center of the story. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

2 " There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to control is yourself. In this moment. Which is both a relief and a huge responsibility." P 236 "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

3 " Anger is a funny thing. And it does funny things to us if we keep it inside. I encourage you to consider a question: Who benefits, my dear, when you forst yourself to not feel angry?" She tilted her head and looked at me so hard I thought she could see right into my bones. She raised her eyebrows. "Clearly not you. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

4 " When power belongs, not to the violent, and not to the wealthy and well-connected, but to the people, a different sort of future begins to present itself. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

5 " What is grief, but love that’s lost its object? "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

6 " Even imperfect things can be precious, after all. The choice itself is precious. The smallness and the largeness of an individual life does not change the fundamental honor and value of every manifestation of our personhood. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

7 " I was four years old when I first saw a dragon. I was four years old when I first learned to be silent about dragons. Perhaps this is how we learn silence - an absence of words, and absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

8 " No one know exactly what happened that night in 1952 - other than that twenty-five different people rang the operator, asking to make a collect call, only to be told, "A girl can only take so much after all." And then the line went dead. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

9 " Who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry? "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

10 " The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job. Thank goodness. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

11 " There was a sign, written in what appeared to be ashes on a piece of discarded desktop. It said SMART DRESSES FOR SMART GALS. WEAR UNTIL THIS LIFE NO LONGER FITS YOU. No one knew what it meant. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

12 " Embarrassment, as it turns out, is more powerful than information. And shame is the enemy of truth. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

13 " There is nothing lewd about biology, research, or basic facts, gentlemen, and you make yourselves fools when you try to classify the quest for understanding as obscene. The only thing more patently obscene than ignorance is willful ignorance. Arrest yourselves. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

14 " There is no room for sorrow in a heart full of fire. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

15 " The downtrodden becomes the bearer of a heavenly, righteous flame. It burns me, even now. I find myself unbound by earth, unbound by man, unbound by wifely duty and womanly pain. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

16 " But I am a scientist, sirs, and my allegiance is not to this body, nor even to myself, but only to the truth. Who benefits when knowledge is buried? Who gains when science succumbs to political expediency? "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

17 " But I was wrong about a lot of things when it came to her. This is not particularly unusual. I think, perhaps, none of us ever know our mothers, not really. Or at least, not until it's too late. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

18 " Perhaps this is how we learn silence - an absence of words, an absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

19 " Sometimes, she said the knots were magic. Sometimes, she said they were math. More often, though, she said that both were true, the way a particle can be both matter and light and no one knows why. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons

20 " People are awfully good at forgetting unpleasant things. "

― Kelly Barnhill , When Women Were Dragons