“The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.”

“Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.”

“It wasnt that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”

“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”

“It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”

“Retrospect: the sweetener of life.”

“Thus, we knew at the onset of the sexual revolution back in 1968 that this day of disease and promiscuity would come. It is here, and what we do with our situation will determine how much we and ou...”

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”

“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic...”

“When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And ...”