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“Oh God, it had been hard, but she had been brave, had held out to the end; how I ever dared to be critical of a woman whom life had hurt and scarred as it had hurt my mother was incomprehensible.”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years

“I hoped she was having the child because she had loved and wanted it; and I prayed she would be happy. It was a terrible thing to bring a human being into the world under any circumstance; a tragedy, yes, a crime to bring one unloved, unwanted.”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years

“I meant to stand by my guns until I had either convinced the enemy or been routed by them.”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years

“When men once turn to brutes, the trifle of man's wit that remains in them adds tenfold to their brutality.

..."These must certainly be my comrades," said Ulysses. "I recognize their dispositions. They are hardly worth the trouble of changing them into the human form again. Nevertheless, we will have it done, lest their bad example should corrupt the other hogs. Let them take their original shapes, therefore, Dame Circe, if your skill is equal to the task. It will require greater magic, I trow, than it did to make swine of them.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, TANGLE WOOD TALES