Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

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Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

Donna Woolfolk Cross


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...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Donna Woolfolk Cross


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The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

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What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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