“As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was made from common clay. Woman should be preferred to man because Eve was created inside Paradise, but Adam was created outside. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man-for Eve ate of the apple for the love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“primicerius? He was young, it was”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida reciente.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
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“a sermon was meant to be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the essentials and short enough to keep one interested!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“That thought let her banish the grin at last, because if independent command was what every good officer craved, a captain all alone in the big dark had no one to appeal to. No one to take the credit or share the blame, for she was all alone, the final arbiter of her ship's fate and the direct, personal representative of her queen and kingdom, and if she failed that trust no power in the galaxy could save her.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow lady going up from a small Essex town, and a very short Roman Catholic priest going up from a small Essex village. When it came to the last case, Valentin gave it up and almost laughed. The little priest was so much the essence of those Eastern flats; he had a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling; he had eyes as empty as the North Sea; he had several brown-paper parcels, which he was quite incapable of collecting. The Eucharistic Congress had doubtless sucked out of their local stagnation many such creatures, blind and helpless, like moles disinterred. Valentin was a skeptic in the severe style of France, and could have no love for priests. But he could have pity for them, and this one might have provoked pity in anybody. He had a large, shabby umbrella, which constantly fell on the floor. He did not seem to know which was the right end of his return ticket. He explained with a moon-calf simplicity to everybody in the carriage that he had to be careful, because he had something made of real silver "with blue stones" in one of his brown-paper parcels. His quaint blending of Essex flatness with saintly simplicity continuously amused the Frenchman till the priest arrived (somehow) at Tottenham with all his parcels, and came back for his umbrella.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Innocence of Father Brown
“Dinosaurs…why did it have to be dinosaurs?”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Fallen
“It was the cocktail hour in Priss’s room at New York Hospital—terribly gay.”
― Mary McCarthy, quote from The Group
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