Another America – 3
“I can lie here in the watershed of your sleep, instead, watching dreams pass under the perfect aqueduct of your bones. Had I slept, it would only have been another hour in which you were lost to me.”
Another America – 2
“I am the only animal that can die a hundred times and still fear death inside. If we expect survival, allow me this. As long as I continue to be cut, let me still bleed.”
Another America – 1
“My nation has doors wide as granaries to turn the believers out to run here on dark hooves, through your cities, where red cascades of flowers sigh of the conquest. Our feet click on your stones but we’ve carried off nothing. The sins are still back there, staining the altar.”
Animal Dreams – 1
“Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? It’s as if they’re afraid to plant themselves.”
Homeland and Other Stories – 1
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Holding the line – 3
“The women who walked to work every morning in their coveralls, hairnets, and hard hats, telling jokes and swinging their lunch buckets, were tugging at the moorings of the status quo.”
Holding the Line -2
“Anyone who has lived in a town deeply divided over a life-and-death issue knows that if you aren’t willing to declare your allegiances, you’re unlikely to be served a cup of coffee in a restaurant, much less engender anyone’s trust.”
Holding The Line – 1
“If you want to know a woman’s worldview, ask her what she wants for her children.”
Bean Trees Quote 2
“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal?”
Bean Trees Quote 1
“In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.”