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“But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“That’s all it might take. It wasn’t death he feared—none of them feared that—but rather failure. But were not the Holy Warriors of Allah those who did the hardest things, and would not his blessings be in proportion to his merit? To be remembered. To be respected by his compatriots. To strike a blow for the cause—even if he managed to do that without recognition, he would go to Allah with peace in his heart.”
― Dead or Alive
― Dead or Alive
“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”
― In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
― In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
“none of this talk. A week or so later, thinking about Mark’s words, Randy had decided to go into”
― Alas, Babylon
― Alas, Babylon
“I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
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