Joy Degruy Quotes

#1. Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything. Let's each buy what we want, and have a little fun; I'm sure we work hard enough to earn it, cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.

Joy DeGruy

#3. He was my other half. He was me. We breathed the same or not at all.

S.D. Hendrickson

#4. I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

Wavy Gravy

#5. We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered." After a moment, he added. "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.

Kristin Cashore

#6. Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique. -Zoey

P.C. Cast

#7. The poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko