Joan > Joan's Quotes

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.”
― Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer

“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ”
― Janet Frame

“What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.”
― Cornelius Elmore Addison, Tom Thorneval: Dream Merchant Extraordinaire

“What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
― Fahmida Riaz