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Janet Benton
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Lilli de Jong
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“So little is permissible for a woman—yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.”
― Lilli de Jong
― Lilli de Jong
“How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?”
― Lilli de Jong
― Lilli de Jong
“1883. Third Month 16
Some moments set my heart on fire, and that’s when language seems the smallest. Yet precisely these bursts of feeling make me long to write. I sit now in a high-walled courtyard, amid the green smells and slanted light of early spring, with that familiar burning in my heart. I’ll need to destroy these pages before returning home, but no matter; for the first time since Mother’s death, words come to me.”
― Lilli de Jong
Some moments set my heart on fire, and that’s when language seems the smallest. Yet precisely these bursts of feeling make me long to write. I sit now in a high-walled courtyard, amid the green smells and slanted light of early spring, with that familiar burning in my heart. I’ll need to destroy these pages before returning home, but no matter; for the first time since Mother’s death, words come to me.”
― Lilli de Jong
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“1883. Third Month 16
Some moments set my heart on fire, and that’s when language seems the smallest. Yet precisely these bursts of feeling make me long to write. I sit now in a high-walled courtyard, amid the green smells and slanted light of early spring, with that familiar burning in my heart. I’ll need to destroy these pages before returning home, but no matter; for the first time since Mother’s death, words come to me.”
― Lilli de Jong
Some moments set my heart on fire, and that’s when language seems the smallest. Yet precisely these bursts of feeling make me long to write. I sit now in a high-walled courtyard, amid the green smells and slanted light of early spring, with that familiar burning in my heart. I’ll need to destroy these pages before returning home, but no matter; for the first time since Mother’s death, words come to me.”
― Lilli de Jong
“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And some-times it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for l. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, Lord. Feeling like shit.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“We can pursue our true wants, Mill writes, only when doing so harms no one to whom we are obliged.”
― Lilli de Jong
― Lilli de Jong
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