“He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors might come to know. He burned the fear out of me until all was left was d...”

“And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasnt being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasnt a friend but a mistress, and a famil...”

“It was a crying shame!”

“Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.”

“When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.”

“Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone.”

“If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.”

“It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”

“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”

“The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.”