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Florence Kelley often told me that to be rated as good as a man in a job, a woman must show herself to be better. She must be steadier, more trustworthy, and twice as skilled just to have the same chance.
“Ad Astra Per Aspera.’ The bass drum boomed again. ‘That means,’ said Mrs Merriweather, translating for the rustic elements, ‘from mud to the stars.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“He had guts enough to pester a poor coloured woman, he had guts enough to pester Judge Taylor when he thought the house was empty, so do you think he’da met you to your face in daylight?”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“She suspects that, to be a good parent, she must pack away the mothering part of herself into a box and gently close the lid on it. She had not realised this is what would be required of her, had not seen it coming.”
― The Names
― The Names
“When the coroner’s report comes, they learn she’d lived with a hole in the heart. That she probably never knew, but that, still, it is a miracle she lived to see eighty-eight. And they wonder again at what she gave to them. How she lived for them, and because of them. And in spite of everything.”
― The Names
― The Names
“Because some people – like Gordon’s father – travel through life believing themselves so far beyond improvement, they come to think their children, and their children’s children, should all be made in their name. Because sometimes their need to please previous generations is greater than their need to love future ones.”
― The Names
― The Names
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