Jay Kempter

“By her own blindness she had sinned; now she must repay, not by empty remorse, but by prompt and useful action.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“The next successful Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, deliberately chose a citadel of white supremacy -- the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi -- as the kickoff site for his presidential campaign, where he declared his support for "states rights," code words signaling that the federal government should leave local jurisdictions to handle the "race problem" as they see fit.”
― James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

“The two are one,' said the Merlin, sitting very erect, 'but the followers of Christ have chosen to say, not that they shall have no other Gods before their God, but that there is no other God save for their God; that he alone made the world, that he rules it alone, that he alone made the stars and the whole of creation.'
Igraine quickly made the holy sign against blasphemy.
'But that cannot be,' she insisted. 'No single God can rule all things … and what of the Goddess? What of the Mother...?'
'They believe,' said Viviane, in her smooth low voice, 'that there is no Goddess; for the principle of woman, so they say, is the principle of all evil; through woman, so they say, Evil entered this world; there is some fantastic Jewish tale about an apple and a snake.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon