Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

To defend oneself by alliance is proof of cowardice.

… there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

I like to think in an emergency situation, I'd act in a really brave way. But the truth is if I ever did get in a situation that looked remotely dangerous, I'd fall on my knees and start crying.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

It needs courage to be afraid.

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.