“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”
As quoted in While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt (2009) by Heidi Schlumpf, p. 37
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French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint 1412–1431Related quotes
“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
John O'Hara (1905–1970) American journalist
Forward http://books.google.com/books?id=pksdAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+work+to+do+and+I+am+afraid+not+to+do+it%22&pg=PAvii#v=onepage to The Horse Knows the Way (1964).
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Variant: I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
Source: We Were Liars
“I would like to shake hands with the white men, but I am afraid they do not want peace with us.”
Little Raven (Arapaho leader) (1810–1889) Southern Arapaho chief
As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 77
“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
Oksana Shachko (1987–2018) Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN
Interview with Luxemburger Wort (2015)
Helen Reddy (1941) Australian actress
"I Am Woman"; written and sung by Reddy
Lyrics, "I Don't Know How To Love Him"(1971)
