Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Carmen Maria Machado (American Author, Essayist)

Carmen Maria Machado (b.1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic. Writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania, she is distinguished for her speculative fiction. Her essays, fantasy, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, and other publications.

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Machado holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017) was a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award in 2017.

Machado’s In the Dream House (2019) relates her frightful and abusive relationship with another woman. Each chapter of this book reflects the conventions of a different genre: road trip, romance novel, creature feature, lesbian pulp novel, and stoner comedy.

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Fear makes liars of us all.
Carmen Maria Machado

You were young. You didn’t know that your mind could be a boon and a prison both. That someone could take its power, and turn it against you.
Carmen Maria Machado

Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.
Carmen Maria Machado

A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.
Carmen Maria Machado

We will always be hungry, will always want. Our bodies and minds will always crave something, even if we don’t recognize it.
Carmen Maria Machado

A house is never apolitical. It is conceived, constructed, occupied, and policed by people with power, needs, and fears.
Carmen Maria Machado

People love an idea, even if they don’t know what to do with it. Even if they only know how to do exactly the wrong thing.
Carmen Maria Machado

The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn’t that they’ll remember; it’s that you’ll remember.
Carmen Maria Machado

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