Jodi Daynard > Quotes

“You must learn to love yourself and your own company. As for others, there is no guarantee. You have only yourself for certain, until the last breath.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“it is more honorable to be kind even if one is not repaid with kindness.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“Between pain and harm, my mother taught me, lay a vast moral divide. Sometimes one must cause pain to avoid harm.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“FOR THE CAKE: Beat together eight soup spoons butter with one cup sugar until fluffy. Mix in two eggs and three soup spoons juice from an orange. In a small bowl, blend one and two-thirds cups flour, a teaspoon baking powder, and half a teaspoon salt. Add dry to wet mixture along with one cup buttermilk. Blend well. Stir in one cup raisins, half a cup chopped walnuts, and one soup spoon finely grated orange peel. Pour the mixture into a buttered pan and bake forty-five to fifty minutes. Cool before icing.   FOR THE ICING: Stir two soup spoons juice of orange and two cups powdered sugar together until the sugar dissolves completely and the icing is smooth. The icing should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. If it is too thick, add more liquid; if too thin, add a little sugar.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“But the mind must have the story and, missing the truth, will piece together a fiction from ragged scraps.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. —Abigail Adams to John Adams March 31, 1776”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“He was large and lusty and cried at once. I cleaned him quickly and”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“This was a pathetic show of dominance by small men over helpless creatures for monetary gain.”
― Jodi Daynard, A More Perfect Union

“each man or woman must judge himself on this earth, and I wished not to look back years hence and find myself lacking.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“give every man thine ear but few thy voice.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“I believe that we are called upon to do things in this life that we would not do in an ideal life. I believe that to reach that ideal, one must be prepared to sacrifice.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“IT IS NOT a Christian sentiment to wish for death. But I was twenty-one and knew not how to suffer.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“broke and at last I was able to rise. It was frightfully cold that morning. The sky was dark. Steel-gray ocean waves crashed pitilessly upon the shore; my breath enshrouded me.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“Thinking what thoughts, may I ask?” “That I must stop my self-pity and get on with the godly task of helping others.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“An excellent idea.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“made”
― Jodi Daynard, A Transcontinental Affair

“my grimy boot and up I went, sitting astraddle”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“And they were soon happily laughing, cutting the heavy dolor of the moment with the bright citrus of youthful cheer.”
― Jodi Daynard, Our Own Country

“Furthermore, I now believe that loneliness of an intimate nature warps the mind and has us seeing phantom qualities in a man, not the truth about him.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“What more hopeful than to believe that the two parallel lines of desire and its fulfillment will eventually meet in one moment of pure joy?”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“Genuine interest usually leads to knowledge. Don’t you find that to be so?” Julia shook her head. “I’ve seen such interest in men. But never, I confess, in a woman.” Hattie set her fork down and turned to Julia with a look of alarm. “I hope you don’t believe that women are so congenitally deformed as to lack curiosity.” “Oh, I didn’t mean that.” Julia blushed.”
― Jodi Daynard, A Transcontinental Affair

“I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.   —Abigail Adams to John Adams March 31, 1776”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“The bright star of Christmas soon faded. January found us hungry, depressed, and continually fearful.”
― Jodi Daynard, Our Own Country

“C’est la Rose en ville où on droit faire la reconnaissance”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“deaths, but poor”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“Like my beloved Star, he had an instinct for me.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“But I told myself that some things are more important than one’s own grief. I had to say good-bye. I had to do him that honor.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“Winkdé is a Lakota word, though different tribes have different names for it. It is the name they give to someone who feels, who is . . .” He opened his hands. “Who is?” Julia encouraged him. “Who feels himself to be both man and woman. Not merely physically but spiritually, as it were. These plains Indians whose land we now traverse take the view that there exist at least four genders: Men, men-women, women-men, and women.”
― Jodi Daynard, A Transcontinental Affair