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and Rachel wondered if all the rabbis' injunctions to the Jews of Venice to refrain from using the endless variety of Christian references as exclamations of annoyance
“Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday...”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.'
'What are you telling me?'
'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
'What are you telling me?'
'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
“When one teaches, two learn.”
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“Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.”
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