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The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story QUOTES

The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story QUOTES

1 " When you’re A child, grown-ups always tell you that ‘Stix and Stones Can break you’re bones, but words will never hurt you.’ They say it as if it’s a kind of spell that’s going to protect you. I’ve never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly heal and disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological ones that people inflict with words go much deeper. Even now, I don’t like to think about those times too much, in case the scars begin to open up and hurt, making me feel useless all over again. "

― , The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

2 " If my story means anything, it is that people are very often too quick to judge a person by the way they look or by their quirks of behavior. I may not have quite the same sense of humour as other people, but at least I do have a sense of humour, and I've needed it! As a society, we seem to have very tight restrictions on what is considered "normal. "

― , The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

3 " There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself. "

― , The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

4 " Yes, it was scary, but every time I got a frisson of fear I tried to remember what Frank Quinn was always telling me. "Susan, believe in yourself. You are the person writing your story. "

― , The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

5 " Unmarried women in their forties, with false teeth and tousled hair, aren't usually held in the highest esteem by our society. The feeling seemed to be that if I could be a success then anyone could! "

― , The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

6 " There’s something about the rhythm of a long walk, like the tick-tock of a metronome, that allows your thoughts to shuffle themselves into some sort of order. "

― , The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

7 " Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, but that doesn't mean you should give up, because there's usually a positive to take from a failure. It's only afterwards that you can look back and see all the steps you have made on your journey. "

― , The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story