The Book Woman's Daughter Quotes

“You grow readers, expand minds, if you let them choose, but you go banning a read, you stunt the whole community.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Can’t be angry and smart at the same time. Now, nothing wrong in having the anger, but the two rarely work together.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Laws about females never make a lick of sense because they’re made and run by men and meant to keep us in bondage.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” As long as you have the books, you’ll always have that light. —”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“It was vital to free folk from illiteracy, to save those imprisoned by its bondage, she’d said.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Freedom. It was all I could think about. I picked up a book and rubbed its worn cover, fanned through the pages, marveling over the power you could get from books.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” —Napoleon Bonaparte”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“girl should marry a man whose last kiss can stay on her lips forever.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” As long as you have the books, you’ll always have that light.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Soon the forest would cast aside its sleeping blanket and perfume the air with its riches.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“This ol’ ’Tucky land sure makes a man yearn for it and want to flee it altogether. And you can sure ’nough have yourself one foot on foreign soil, but the other is always pointed home.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“For Joe, Always my secret weapon. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” —Napoleon Bonaparte”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Can’t be angry and smart at the same time. Now, nothing wrong in having the anger, but the two rarely work together. Let’s be smart, darling daughter”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Laws written by men don’t protect females much.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death… It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Laws about females never make a lick of sense because they’re made and run by men and meant to keep us in bondage”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Though it rarely happens fast enough and not near as quick as it should, Honey, I expect like all ugly laws, change will come.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“He pushed his face closer to mine and I tucked my chin, cowering, knowing if there was one thing the Blue folk had in common with other womenfolk, it was to do just that, duck from a man’s hard flying fist. Like all Kentucky women, I knew when to stand and knew when to bow and back down. It was a means of survival that was taught to the very young, instilled in the smallest of girls.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Books’ll save you, my troubled heart knew.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Books were smart. Powerful. An escape, a friend, a lesson, and LIBERTY for us all.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Laws written by men don’t protect females much.” Pearl sighed. It was the first time I thought about it, and I suddenly realized it was true, remembering Retta’s comment in the courtroom about the men and my best interest.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“I recall how surprised I was to learn that the president paid the librarians $28 a month, and only that. Before Mama got Junia, she had to rent her mounts from Mr. Murphy, paying $7.25 a month. With no books or money to buy them, she and the other librarians had to scrounge around for their reading materials.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Though Mama and I were the last of the Blues, the very last of our kind, and different from others, the books united every one of us.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Can’t be angry and smart at the same time. Now, nothing wrong in having the anger, but the two rarely work together. Let’s be smart, darling daughter.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” As long as you have the books, you’ll always have that light. —Oren”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.” “‘The Ladder of St. Augustine,’” I”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“Can’t be angry and smart at the same time.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

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― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter