“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“It's smart. It's what men do. Why do you think they join all those clubs —the Elks? The VFW? The Masons? Congress!" she cried. "To support one another, that's why. Why do you think they call them booster clubs? Because they're trying to boost each other over the wall or bend the rules in their favor, help the group.
If women stuck up for one another the way men do, this would be a very different world.”
― The Book Club for Troublesome Women
If women stuck up for one another the way men do, this would be a very different world.”
― The Book Club for Troublesome Women
“From those to whom much has been given, much is expected.”
― The Book Club for Troublesome Women
― The Book Club for Troublesome Women
“You get the one life. It’s awfully unfair, isn’t it?”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
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