Donna Johnson > Donna's Quotes

“It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the hyper-religious, the young people, sometimes middle-aged women, those who have the least to lose because they don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.”
― Christine Wicker, Not in Kansas Anymore

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Doubt is a lot like faith; A mustard's seed worth changes everything.”
― Donna Johnson, Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir

“I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel.”
― Sarah Bird, How Perfect Is That

“Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.”
― Florence King

“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”
― Elizabeth Stone