Shannon

“Having God is having someone to rage against,” she said over coffee. “Where else will I go with that? God is strong enough to take it, like a strong parent. My railing is not only against God, but also against man. Where was God? Where was man?”
― R.D. Rosen, Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors

“Because I know. Grown-up white men don’t want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian

“That was the beginning of her abstraction.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian

“there because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian