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Famous Quotes By Shirley Abbott

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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. — Shirley Abbott

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Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on
pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish
anything that didn't bite you first. — Shirley Abbott

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They founded a society based not upon currency and commodities but on the elementary notion that if you failed to raise enough to eat, you would go hungry. — Shirley Abbott

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The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes
to me a beatitude
is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women
or men
can suffer is to be bereft of their past. — Shirley Abbott

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If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it. — Shirley Abbott