Fiona Wood Quotes

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

I don't think I fully appreciated how relaxing it is having someone I can be really mean to. It's going to be so hard being nice all the time.

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.