Emma

“It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.”
― James Cone

“You don't even live once.”
― Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
― Barbara Kingsolver