"But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome."

“I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.”

“There is a proud modesty in merit.”

“As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.”

Source : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001). “Two Years Before the Mast”, p.15, Digital Scanning Inc

“It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so”

“The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.”

“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

“The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?”

“Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.”