The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter Quotes

“It was clear to me that the time for a god-king was past. Now the commoners read books, and carried guns.”
― Grace Tiffany, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare

“I thought back on the near-eternity of our life together. Thirty years, the pith of which we’d spent in the swamp of boy-raising, where the channels of passion get child-choked.”
― Grace Tiffany, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare

“So many things can balk a woman from bearing (including a man who wields a powderless gun. Though I must say that in my whole life I’ve never heard a single husband take the blame for a barren house, not even when put to the proof with three childless wives in a row).”
― Grace Tiffany, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare