Joyanne

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Experts on education say that exposing low-income children to higher-income environments is one of the most effective tools for motivating them to strive to do well in school.”
― Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

“This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached far enough into the outside world. Instead, these tales have ricocheted within the mountains, growing more faint with time. I want to tell these stories because they matter, because I’m afraid that they will be forgotten, because they have the power to make this community visible. As I stop my vehicle and walk toward the house, the memories wash over me like the sunlight on the mountain hills.”
― Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

“For a while, in that room, my past and present were together and getting along just fine.”
― Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains