Pamela Duncan > Quotes

“The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn’t want to go out of doors no more. And since they was all cooped up inside their cold houses, they needed something to do, so some other feller invented television. Now, you tell me one good thing ever come from them two contraptions.” He paused. “You can’t, can you?”
― Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

“That’s what I want, she thought, with the fiercest feeling of wanting she’d ever had in her life. She wanted that look her granny had, that look that told the world here I am, I’m somebody, and here is my life. I been young and old and in between, I loved a man, raised my children, worked, laughed, cried, and, see, even after all that, here I still am. “I’ll be”
― Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

“Τhat’s when I found faith, when my young’uns growed up and I had to let them go.”
― Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

“Look at things the way they are and not the way you wish they was and you’ll get along all right.”
― Pamela Duncan, Plant Life: A Novel