“I didn’t have to wonder much what’d enlightened me—in a few weeks, I’d fallen in love with a married man, had my eyebrows plucked, started a dance club when my sister was out of town, and was getting dropped off at church by five prostitutes.”
― The Calamity Club
― The Calamity Club
“All I’m asking for is a decent view, some hard candies, and something to damn read. Is that too much to ask for in life?”
― The Calamity Club
― The Calamity Club
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all!”
― The Calamity Club
― The Calamity Club
“I wept for my grandfather and wept for a past that was dead, and I felt forsaken when the wind refused to whisk me away.”
― What the Wind Knows
― What the Wind Knows
“For over half a century, tens of thousands of American women were seized and “forcibly examined,” historian Scott W. Stern writes. “If they misbehaved or if they failed to show ‘proper’ ladylike deference, these women could be beaten, doused with cold water, thrown in solitary confinement—or even sterilized.”
― The Calamity Club
― The Calamity Club
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