Tracie

“I was born with the same gift from God we are all born with—the impulse to reach out and lessen the suffering of another human being. It was a gift, and we each had a choice whether to use this gift or not.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“Indeed, she’d recently begun to conceive of her stand for selfhood as “business that God has sent me to do.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“doctors were policing women who stepped outside society’s strictly defined gender spheres—work and intellect for men, home and children for women—in what could be described as a “medicalization of female behavior.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“I was afraid every single day on death row. And I also found a way to find joy every single day. I learned that fear and joy are both a choice.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row