A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 193

THE COUNTESS

That’s the very first time in the eons that I’ve known you that I’ve ever heard you complain. And now you’re tired, poor darling.

SISSY

A born freak can only go uphill.

THE COUNTESS

Freak, schmeek. Most of us are freaks in one way or another. Try being born a male Russian countess into a white middle-class Baptist family in Mississippi and you’ll see what I mean.

SISSY

I’ve always been proud of the way nature singled me out. It’s the people who have been deformed by society I feel sorry for.

— from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), film version adapted from the Tom Robbins novel of the same name

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