Sibyl Slant Quotes

#1. But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.

Souad

#2. In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.

Cynthia Rylant

#3. Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Robin Williams

#4. When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. Black space opened. She got to her feet to fight better

Maxine Hong Kingston

#5. A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.

Ashley Tisdale

#7. There was Bartender Boy, but he wouldn't get off until well after 2 A.M. I was a nervous wreck already, so if this dragged on till the wee hours of the morning, I'd be completely psychotic. I could just imagine it ... straight-jacketed due to sex.

Cora Carmack