These are the five quotes I liked the best from "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison:

She learned that bathing naked in the river was a sin; that plucking cherries from a tree burdened with them was theft; that to eat corn mush with one's fingers was perverse.Religion, as Rebekka experienced it from her mother, was a flame fueled by a wondrous hatred.Weak as her faith was, there was no excuse for not protecting the soul of an infant from eternal perdition.Although they had nothing in common with the views of each other, they had everything in common with one thing: the promise and threat of men.To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal.