A Girl Called Samson Quotes

“Great miracles were wrought on their journey, but miracles do not make life easy. Most often, miracles just make the next step possible.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“Many wonder what it is all for. I wonder what it is all for. And yet that truth, the truth of the ages, is that it is not for ourselves that we act. It is not our lives we are building, but the lives of generations that will come.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“But you are a warrior.” “I am a woman,” I argued. “You are both,”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I need to tell my story because it is not just my story. It is Dorothy’s. And Elizabeth’s. And Mrs. Thomas’s. It is my mother’s story and your daughters’ story. We were all there too. We suffered and sacrificed. We fought, even if it was not always on the battlefield. It was our Revolution as well, and yet . . . no one ever asks us.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I had never considered it a privilege to be a woman. Not even once. I had struggled at the bit of my sex, at the reins of society, at the saddle of tradition. It had not occurred to me that men had their own burdens, that they were bridled too. It was not women who died on the battlefield.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“Loss is not spread equally. I have learned that lesson well. It is a lumpy porridge and a thin gruel, and fate does not consider the suffering of a mother and say, Perhaps I’ll spare her this time.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I had never considered it a privilege to be a woman. Not even once. I had struggled at the bit of my sex, at the reins of society, at the saddle of tradition. It had not occurred to me that men had their own burdens, that they were bridled too. It was not women who died on the battlefield. I had been denied and barred entry to a world I wanted to experience, but had I been barred because I was disdained or because I was valued? I suspected it was both. Even so, I was less inclined to complain about my lot.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I was a soldier, and I am proud of that. I am a mother too, and a wife, and I have not wished away the blessings or power of womanhood, as you once counseled. I have embraced every role, played every part, and made my mark on the world.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I had never been embraced. Not once in my memory had I been cradled in another’s arms, but John Paterson clutched me to his heart like the prodigal son come home.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“In a way, he radicalized me too, if faith can be called radical. I’ve come to think it might be the most rebellious thing of all.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I was accepted as a man because for me to be a woman was unfathomable.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“Slavery hasn’t ended, and women still have our place, and we’d best not venture out of it. Maybe it is because we are treasured, as John once said, but it is one thing to be treasured and it is another to be a treasure. One is valued, one is possessed, and people aren’t possessions.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“But “normal” changed, and though I was the first female schoolteacher in Middleborough, I doubted I would be the last. It only took one person to climb a mountain or reach a summit before others followed and sought new heights.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“We don't keep women out of war because they are less than... Men don't bring their treasure onto the battlefield. They protect it.' He enunciated each word. 'I am not treasured. So I do not need protecting.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I find men are more apt to let us play if they believe they will triumph.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“Romans 12:2 is more to my liking: “And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“But whoever made this world understands beauty and love. All you have to do is look around to feel it. And I don’t think that ever ends. ‘Whatever God does, it is forever,’” I quoted. “I imagine death is like moving into a new season.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“His good looks made him believe he deserved more than life gave him. Had he been plain, he might not have been so proud.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“My grandmother told me once that men may run the world, but women rule men.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“A man is what he makes of himself. It is not something bestowed on him.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I love Ma an awful lot, but loving Ma is kinda like loving God. She’s not really a person.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“Our aspirations are so often influenced by our appearance.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“Looks don’t matter at all if your hearts are the same,” I declared, hoping it was true.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“But it is hope that will give you the desire to continue. You must resist it, that hopelessness. When God takes you, let Him take you. When He plucks you from this earthly coil, then you may rejoice. But as long as you draw breath, as long as your heart beats and the sun rises, you must stay in the fight.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’” I began. He huffed under his breath, like I’d surprised him again, and I paused in my recitation. “You’ve memorized it?” he asked. “Yes, sir.” “Why?” “Because I believe in it.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“I did not fear death, oddly enough. I almost expected it. But I did not want to kill. And for the first time, it occurred to me that killing was what I’d signed up to do.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“An education was about more than reading and arithmetic. It was about wonder too, and becoming able and useful people.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“There were many times in our season of death when I sat upon my hill, surveyed the bit of the world I was allowed to see, and pleaded for God to rein fate in. Fate was cruel, but I did not believe God was. But fate was not done, and God did not stop her.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“When God takes you, let Him take you. When He plucks you from this earthly coil, then you may rejoice. But as long as you draw breath, as long as your heart beats and the sun rises, you must stay in the fight.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson

“but miracles do not make life easy. Most often, miracles just make the next step possible.”
― Amy Harmon, A Girl Called Samson