"Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations."

-- A.C.H. Smith

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“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”
“Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.”
“Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.”
“May Knowledge reshape your lives so that your greater destiny may come into view”
“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.”
“I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.”
“As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
“To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.”

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