Karen Stensgaard > Karen's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When Jules Verne was on everyone’s nightstand, Pulitzer ordered daredevil reporter Nellie Bly to travel around the world in eighty days; she accomplished it in seventy-two.”
― Paul Collins, The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

“If one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling,” Bly liked to say, “and not for the purpose of impressing fellow travelers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one.”
― Matthew Goodman, Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
― Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House

“One of the best things you can do is grow a thick layer of rhino skin. Unfortunately, you will need it. People will try to pierce through it and reach your heart, but don't let them.”
― Karen Stensgaard

“Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bottle for the women.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays