Terre

“I lay on my back, feeling as if more than the womb had been taken out.”
― Gayl Jones, Corregidora

“In the way of small-town rebels everywhere, they conformed to each other.”
― Chris Offutt, The Killing Hills

“I wanted a song that would touch me, touch my life and theirs. A portuguese song, but not a portuguese. song. A new world song. A song branded with the new world. I thought of the girl who had to sleep with her master and mistress. Her father, the master. Her daughter's father. The father of her daughter's daughter. How many generations. Days that were pages of hysteria. their survival depended on suppressed hysteria.”
― Gayl Jones, Corregidora

“I am Ursa Corregidora. I have tears for eyes. I was made to touch my past at an early age. I found it on my mother’s tiddies. In her milk. Let no one pollute my music. I will dig out their temples. I will pluck out their eyes.”
― Gayl Jones, Corregidora