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The Order of Virtue
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“Her name was a joke, she said, like Karen Cutter's family nick-naming her Cookie, or poor Marie Antoinette Jones, whose parents had liked the sound of the name but who were a tad weak in French history.”
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“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”
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“it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble”
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“When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet," she writes. "Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.”
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“Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.”
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