Carol Emshwiller Quotes
Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.

-Carol Emshwiller
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Stories do not change the world. I’ve learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way.... I mean it’s not the world I want to change.

-Carol Emshwiller
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He said, 'I like to see some spirit in my women. I like spunk and the fire in the eye. A woman like that is worth having,' but that was before I kicked him in the groin.

-Carol Emshwiller
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I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

-Carol Emshwiller
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Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. At any rate, how nice to be well dressed and among friends and in a state where poem . . . Read more

-Carol Emshwiller
I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

-Carol Emshwiller
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May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

-Carol Emshwiller
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Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it.

-Carol Emshwiller
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