By law, a slaw was three-fifths of a person. It came to me that what Id just suggested would seem paramount to proclaiming vegetables equal to animals, animals equal to humans, women equal to men, men equal to angels. I was upending the order of creation. Strangest of all, it was the first time thoughts of equality had entered my head, and I could only attribute it to God, with whom Id lately taken up and who was proving to be more insurrectionary than law-abiding.
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Sue Monk Kidd was a contemporary American novelist and memoirist. Sue Monk Kidd is an American writer from Sylvester, Georgia. She is best known for her historical novels, which frequently deal with themes of race, feminism, and religion and include The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- God — Spiritual reflections on the divine, faith, and creation