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Sunlight Finds You

by Laura Moriarty (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 16, 2026 03:24PM

“After 1940, most of those sterilized were working-class women of color, including Fannie Lou Hamer, who many believe coined the heartbreaking term “Mississippi appendectomy.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

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“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.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

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“There were Christian people and there were good people but the two didn’t necessarily always overlap.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

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“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?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

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“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.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

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