If women lose the right to say where and h... - Ami McKay - Quotes.Pub

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that’s as dear to life as breathing.

The Birth House Quotes

Ami McKay Quotes

Evidently, it takes equally thin parts of kindness and sincerity to marry well.

Of course the act of drinking tea was, in and of itself, quite troublesome, as it had been known to lead to all sorts of sins: idleness, gossip, political activity, subversive thinking.

No matter what you do – somebody, somewheres, knew that you would.

There’s no match for the sweetness independence brings.

Kissin’ the dirt’s the only way you’ll see heaven.

People like the feeling they get when they think they’ve stumbled upon something miraculous. It’s a proven fact.

Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.

Close your eyes and get some rest. We gain new worlds when we sleep. – The Grimoire of Eleanor St. Clair.

A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.

Let that be a lesson to you,” her mother had said, wagging her finger at her daughter. “Those who use magic to find what they seek may not always like what they find.

She’d always adored autumn storms, from the quiet that came before the rain, when the birds and bugs went silent, to the raucous cracks and grumbles that echoed between the clouds, rife with the possibility of goblins and ghosts.

When do I get to say whatever I wish?” “When it pains you not to,” her mother had replied. “What if I’m too scared?” “All the more reason to speak your mind.

Christmas Day has come and gone, the New Year lies ahead. Strange things happen Between the Years, in the days outside of time. Minutes go wild, hours vanish. Idleness becomes a clever thief, stealing the names of the days of the week, muting the steady tick of watches and clocks. These are the hours when angels, ghosts, demons and meddlers ride howling wind and flickering candlelight, keen to stir unguarded hearts and restless minds.

A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

Fortune favors the prepared mind. Beauty seeks attention. Intelligence commands it.

In my heart I knew it was the sort of thing she'd find to be a waste of time, but it meant everything to me, the words having come from my heart to my hand to the page, a bit of myself about to be folded square and sent back home.

The Virgin Cure Quotes

On any given day, acts of kindness occur all across the city. Someone gives up their bed so someone else can rest their tired, aching bones. Someone hands a bit of change to a stranger. There's hot soup and good fortune, soft words and bread.Then there are the cruel things that happen, the worst that you can imagine. Heaven help you if even one of them finds you. The memory of it will never let you alone.

The Virgin Cure Quotes

American girls never whimper.

Crying Quotes The Virgin Cure Quotes

It’s a disgusting mess we come through to be born, the sticky-wet of blood and afterbirth, mother wailing, child crying … the helpless soft spot at the top of its head pulsing, waiting to be kissed. Our parents and teachers say it’s a miracle, but it’s not. It’s going to happen no matter what, there’s no choice in the matter. To my mind, a miracle is something that could go one way or another. The fact that something happens, when by all rights it shouldn’t, is what makes us take notice, it’s what saints are made of, it takes the breath away. How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that’s made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead … that’s the miracle.

The Birth House Quotes

No matter what you do—somebody, somewheres, knew that you would.

The Birth House Quotes

Aunt Fran lowered her voice. "Her cold is just the start of a greater sickness. These 'stories,' as you call them, will only lead her to more pain.""Fran, talk plain, will you?""I'm talking about derangement.""Don't be silly!"She wispered. "And deviant behaviours.

The Birth House Quotes

Standing in front of the girl's house, Mama yelled up at the windows, "Katie Adams, you whore, give me my husband back!" When Miss Adams' neighbours complained about all the noise Mama was making, my father came down to quiet her. He kissed her until she cried, but didn't come home.

The Virgin Cure Quotes

Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.

Mothers Quotes The Virgin Cure Quotes

What do you want? Love. Well, love gets what she wants one way or another.

Love Quotes

Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.

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