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> [And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/and-if-i-fight-then-for-what-for-nothing-easy-or-sweet-and-i-told-you/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

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## More by Joanne Greenberg

> [The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/the-creative-strength-is-good-enough-and-deep-enough-to-bring-itself/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [“They had shared much of their pasts, most of their fears, and all of their tenuous and fragile hopes, but Deborah had noticed over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/they-had-shared-much-of-their-pasts-most-of-their-fears-and-all-of/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/what-cook-can-match-herself-against-hunger-and-memory/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/sometimes-the-world-is-so-much-sicker-than-the-inmates-of-its/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/suicide-is-the-ultimate-one-up-as-it-were-the-accusation-that-brooks/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [“Among equals gratitude is reciprocal; her gratitude to these Titans, who called themselves average and were unaware of their own tremendous strength in being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/among-equals-gratitude-is-reciprocal-her-gratitude-to-these-titans/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [“People were differentiated by this substance, which was called nganon . Nganon was a concentrate which was defined in each person by nurture and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/people-were-differentiated-by-this-substance-which-was-called-nganon/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/you-know-the-thing-that-is-so-wrong-about-being-mentally-ill-is-the/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [“Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/yr-had-a-region-called-the-fear-bog-lactamaeon-had-taken-her-there/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [“Later, they began to explore the secret idea that Deborah shared with all the ill—that she had infinitely more power than the ordinary person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/later-they-began-to-explore-the-secret-idea-that-deborah-shared-with/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/there-is-nothing-that-you-can-do-to-me-that-my-own-craziness-doesn-t/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/all-children-blackmail-their-parents-with-their-innocence/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/money-in-the-hand-is-real-coins-and-bills-the-rest-i-don-t-believe-in/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/a-humane-and-authentic-book-written-by-another-voice-from-the-trenches/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

> [The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-greenberg/the-hidden-strength-is-too-deep-a-secret-but-in-the-end-in-the-end-it/)

[Joanne Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-greenberg/)

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