Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

Sometimes the mere assumption that you have the right to go, will get you there!

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing." Ranger

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.

I'm the best and I'll thank you to remember that.

It makes me feel like I can look the East End in the face.

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

Putting myself out there knowing I can be criticized - it's ironic, but to me, that's the most empowering thing.

I know everything that's out there that's worth knowing about.

No guy with a Ph.D. is going to beat me.

How can I tell my daughter when she grows up to aspire to be what she wants to be if I am too scared to hop back in the ring because of what some people have said about me?

From a young age, I was a pretty good listener, a strong lady. Maybe it helped me that I never felt intimidated by anybody. Even at school, I was always strong. I believed in myself, in what I do.

I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and say, 'I don't like this' or 'I want a change'... and that I relish that because my ego's so big I think I can solve whatever you throw at me and make it even better. I enjoy the interaction and the challenge.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Fear dims when you learn things.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.