Outlawed Book Quotes & Sayings

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life. — Anna Quindlen

Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily. — Laura Ricketts

If someone puts you through hell, don't be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness. — Jeanette Coron

The Bible- banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it; dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it is more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints. Pieced together scraps of Scripture have converted whole whole villages of pagan Indians. — Charles W. Colson

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief
holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me. — Hanna Rosin

Why would I go look at other women when the most beautiful woman in the world shares my bed every night? he protested, kissing her lightly. - Gabriel Emerson — Sylvain Reynard

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery. — Douglas Harding