“ There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor. ”
Magdalena pulls me away by the arm. “I am the stronger one of Titus and I,” she says over the marketplace din. “Woman are always the stronger sex.” She smiles to herself. “The trick is not appearing to be so.
~ Lynn Cullen
First you must believe there is a soul.... If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do.
It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.
Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself.
