Posts tagged "triumph" — Page 2
Baby Suggs laughed, clear as anything. “You mean I never told you nothing about Carolina? About your daddy? You don’t remember nothing about how come I walk the way I do and about your mother’s feet, not to speak of her back? I never told you all that? Is that why you can’t walk down the steps? My Jesus my.”
But you said there was no defense.
“There ain’t.”
Then what do I do?
“Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on.”
~Toni Morrison, Beloved
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I will tell you a secret.
They can’t threaten you
with starvation, if you learn not to eat.
~Carolyn Gage
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“And now that you don’t have to be perfect,
you can be good.”
~John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it. ~Andrea Dworkin
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