Gaining Confidence

Famous quotes containing the words gaining and/or confidence:

“Remember stories you read when a boy
The shipwrecked sailor gaining safety by
His knife, treetrunk, and lianas for now
You must escape, or perish saying no.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)