The Dollmaker Quotes

“What was the good of trying to keep your own (children) if when they grew up their days were like your own- changeovers and ugly painted dolls?”
― Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker

“If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.”
― Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker

“Jesus God, what ails th fools a wasten good gasoline to skeer th liven daylights out uv us all?”
― Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker

“Isn’t it awful how they work at terrible jobs—have you seen Sophronie’s hands lately—and then waste their money?”
― Harriette Arnow, The Dollmaker

“Then would come the remembering again, and the knife would be lost again while she (Gertie) sat helplessly fumbling, once more far from the man in the wood, tossed and whirled about as she was in the ringing, roaring fury." The Dollmaker, Harriette Arnow, p 418”
― Harriette Arnow, The Dollmaker

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― Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker