Donna Woolfolk Cross Quotes
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.
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
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.
Strange, the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moment's unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.
Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.
She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.
This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?
It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.