“We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth.
I will honor my mother and take care of my family.
Yes, I think. I am just a woman.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“My ma taught me one thing from the beginning: My body is mine. My own. No one else’s. Just because somebody thinks they have rights to it, doesn’t make it true. I thought I understood that before, but here, in this place, it’s become more clear than ever how right she was. My flesh and blood–it’s the only thing I own, and I’ll defend it until I can’t fight anymore.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“They've forgotten, or maybe they've never learning, that their worth is not determined by how much a man wants them.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“I'd rather be a wolf than a girl any day.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“There are bigger things in life than being chosen.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“And I feel it happen--silent and study as a feather, a piece of my soul becomes his.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“The Garden trapped me like an animal. The Governess sold me like livestock at an auction. And the mayor and his family would have made me their whore. I am shaking with rage.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“But,” I say, wetting my lips, “but if trust was a thing you could hold in your hand, I would give mine to you. I’d let you have it forever and never ask for it back.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“I feel a strange sensation brewing inside of me. It tickles my throat and forces my lips into a grin. Before I can stifle it, I giggle. And then I laugh.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“Behind us are two or three dozen country people from the outlying towns. With them are cages of chicken and goats, sheep, even cattle. That’s where we fit on market day. Between the executions and the livestock sales.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“That's where we fit on market day. Between the executions and the livestock sales.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“I’d rather be a wolf than a girl any day.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
“and soft as a feather, a piece of my soul becomes his.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from The Glass Arrow
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“...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Froi of the Exiles
“HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.
NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.”
― George Bernard Shaw, quote from Pygmalion
“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“Ever man should have the courage to stand up and face the enemy,' I said, 'cause ever person that looks like a enemy on the outside ain't necessarily one on the inside. We all has more in common that we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.”
― Ron Hall, quote from Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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