The Electric Woman Quotes

“The only way to do it is to do it. There is no trick.”
― Tessa Fontaine, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

“I thought I could see the world, but it turned out I was only seeing the first layer. You cannot stop at the first layer. There are always worlds behind worlds, days inside days, the richness of any moment magnified by how open you are to what's happening, each person not just who they are in some interactions with you, but a whole world opening infinitely out from your expectations, from their experiences. What was set up, what appeared onstage, what the audience saw, what happened behind the curtain, what happened beyond.”
― Tessa Fontaine, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

“The world is much more mysterious and magical than most of us think it is... a foundational mystery and magic that was beyond our capacity to understand but our great duty to explore. If we were ready for it. If we could open ourselves to the terror as well as the joy that comes with that.
deep unknown.”
― Tessa Fontaine, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

“What is adventure but inconvenience, properly regarded?”
― Tessa Fontaine, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

“For the first time, I imagine what it would be like to have a child going off into the world, making her own life with her own experiences, and how I would feel happy for her, and excited, and also quite sad that I was no longer a necessary part of it.”
― Tessa Fontaine, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts