Important Quotations Explained
1. While the sun shines on you and the fields are green and beautiful
to the eye, and your husband sees beauty in you which no has seen before,
and you have a good store of grain laid away for hard times, a roof over you
and a sweet stirring in your body, what more can a woman ask
for?
2. Privately I thought, Well, and what if we gave in to our troubles
at every step! We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for is
not a man's spirit given to him to rise above his misfortunes?
3. It is not enough to cry out, not sufficient to lay bare your woes
and catalogue your needs; people have only to close their eyes and their
ears, you cannot force them to see and to hear—or to answer your cries if
they cannot and will not.
4. For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go?
Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered
goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only
money.
5. “Would you hold me when my time is come? I am at peace. Do not
grieve.”
“If I grieve,” I said, “it is not for you, but for myself, beloved,
for how shall I endure to live without you, who are my love and my life?”
“You are not alone,” he said. “I live in my children. . .
.”
