Anne Bonny Quotes

#1. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#2. There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

Anne Bonny

#4. Like say if the mom and dad of god said he could never get dirty. There would be no world!

Lynda Barry

#5. Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

Anne Bonny

#7. I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

Anne Bonny

#8. I opened my mouth and projectile-vomited on her from head to toe. The more I retched, the more I had to retch. It was a disgusting self-fulfilling prophecy. Her howls and screeches were music to my indebted ears. Her hair was covered and her net top held my gift beautifully.

Robyn Peterman

#9. If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)

Anne Bonny

#10. Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.

Robert Kurson