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Harper Lee
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February 2 - February 19, 2025
she knows I know she tries.
parenting
was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.
She can't get a break. Society wants her to be a lady, but heaven forbid she act like a girl or a woman.
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away. Immediately.
Generations of suppression.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know, but they did it. They鈥檝e done it before and they did it tonight and they鈥檒l do it again and when they do it鈥攕eems that only children weep. Good night.鈥
havin鈥 a gun around鈥檚 an invitation to somebody to shoot you.鈥
whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.鈥
