More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
You have to push through to the bitter end. No flinching, no turning away.
“Better for ten guilty men to go free rather than for one innocent man to suffer.”
“If it’s an ace detective you want, you should call Holly Gibney. I can give you her number.”
“Holly, you never change.” Holly looks up at her, a small woman with graying hair and a faint smile. “It’s my superpower.”
“Joan of Arc heard the voice of God. I hear the voices of oppressed women.”
John Lennon once said, life is what happens when you’re making other plans.
“God’s law!” someone shouts from the back of the auditorium. Kate doesn’t miss a beat. She never does. “I didn’t know God had been elected to the Nebraska Legislature.”
“And I’ve got a bail jumper to locate. Plus a stolen truck. One of those Cyber thingies. A Musk-mobile.”
Don’t stick your finger where you wouldn’t stick your dick.
It’s at times like this, early in the morning on a beautiful spring day, that she really wants a cigarette.
She’s thinking of the donkey with the big teeth. It doesn’t haunt her dreams, at least not yet, but give it time.
It’s not courage she lacks, it’s the fundamental self-worth necessary to call someone out on their hurtful behavior.
But theology as practiced by Christian fundamentalists is all about the world. Mixing religion with politics is dangerous. Not the road to Calvary but the one that leads to fascism.”
deeply religious people in every sect or faith can always find justification for what they want to do in one holy book or another.
“Yeah, probably. You know, Holly, I think the religions of the world are responsible for a shitpot of trouble.”
Holly smiles. She’s radiant when she smiles. The years fall away and she’s young again.
However you feel about abortion, one fact is indisputable: these people were murdered for their beliefs.
Women’s rights are human rights.
