Donna Woolfolk Cross

“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”

“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”

“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.”

“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”

“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”

“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”