Borrowed Names Quotes

“Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters

“One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters

“Mama, what kept you moving forward
through droughts, wild animals, loneliness?

We had no choice. Sadness was as dangerous as panthers and bears.
The wilderness needs your whole attention.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters