Being human Quote by Carol Emshwiller

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things…

— Carol Emshwiller

“I'll practice the new me in front of guests. I kind of like some of them, the guests. One has a soft, soft voice…

— Carol Emshwiller

“Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness…

— Carol Emshwiller

“It has been a profitable three days. In the time to knit a fairly long scarf, I have learned about the universe.”

— Carol Emshwiller

“When Gertrude Stein came to Ann Arbor, my mother said that all she said was, a rose is a rose is a rose is…

— Carol Emshwiller

“Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.”

— Carol Emshwiller

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want…

— Carol Emshwiller

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part…

— Carol Emshwiller

“I wanted a monument to myself in granite. I wanted my face in seven different colours. I wanted I LOVE YOU in giant red…

— Carol Emshwiller

“It is important and salutary to speak of incomprehensible things,' they said, and so we did till dawn.”

— Carol Emshwiller

“She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!”

— Carol Emshwiller

“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if…

— Carol Emshwiller