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“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“The tie between parent and child is unbreakable, despite the sort of relationship they actually shared.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not say I believed what I did not believe.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

“a world in which they were all worth something.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“Fear nothing so much as the sin of simply not doing your duty,”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“Elizabeth’s mind spun from what he told her. Under the laws of the United States at that time, a man’s wife was his property: Theophilus could do as he wished. She later wrote in bleak despair, “I…have married away all the freedom I ever had in America”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“If these sufferers can bear to feel it, I can and will bear to see it…for if I do not see these things, I cannot testify that I did. So I will even look on,”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“To borrow Granny’s description, a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then do they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond