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ldearing's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Loved this collection of essays. Alice Walker has such an insightful perspective.
Favorite quotes
“I have learned to accept the fact that we risk disappointment, disillusionment, even despair every time we act. Every time we decide to believe the world can be better. Every time we decide to trust others to be as noble as we think they are.”
“I believe people exist to be enjoyed, much as a restful or engaging view might be. As the ocean or drifting clouds might be.”
“We are born knowing how to worship, just as we are born knowing how to laugh.”
“I believe that if the women of the world were comfortable, this would be a comfortable world.” [quoting Samuel Zan]
“For the earth to know health and happiness, this violence against women must stop. We cannot care for the environment around us, our self designated role from the beginning, if we are in excruciating pain.”
“…Love is the revolutionary emotion, partly because it cannot be limited, cannot be compartmentalized, cannot be controlled.”
“I don’t respect ‘guys’ enough to obliterate the woman that I see by calling her by their name.”
“I believe war is a weapon of persons without personal power, that is to say, the power to reason, the power to persuade, from a position of morality and integrity; and that to go to war with any enemy who is weaker than you is to admit you possess no resources within yourself to bring to bear on your own fate.”
“To see the anti-abortion forces, including Bush, rage against poor and scared women, some of them homeless, who refuse to give life to children they cannot support, while not even planting symbolic crosses for the actual children bombed to death in Iraq, is to witness cynicism in its most unconscionable form.”
Favorite quotes
“I have learned to accept the fact that we risk disappointment, disillusionment, even despair every time we act. Every time we decide to believe the world can be better. Every time we decide to trust others to be as noble as we think they are.”
“I believe people exist to be enjoyed, much as a restful or engaging view might be. As the ocean or drifting clouds might be.”
“We are born knowing how to worship, just as we are born knowing how to laugh.”
“I believe that if the women of the world were comfortable, this would be a comfortable world.” [quoting Samuel Zan]
“For the earth to know health and happiness, this violence against women must stop. We cannot care for the environment around us, our self designated role from the beginning, if we are in excruciating pain.”
“…Love is the revolutionary emotion, partly because it cannot be limited, cannot be compartmentalized, cannot be controlled.”
“I don’t respect ‘guys’ enough to obliterate the woman that I see by calling her by their name.”
“I believe war is a weapon of persons without personal power, that is to say, the power to reason, the power to persuade, from a position of morality and integrity; and that to go to war with any enemy who is weaker than you is to admit you possess no resources within yourself to bring to bear on your own fate.”
“To see the anti-abortion forces, including Bush, rage against poor and scared women, some of them homeless, who refuse to give life to children they cannot support, while not even planting symbolic crosses for the actual children bombed to death in Iraq, is to witness cynicism in its most unconscionable form.”
sarahreadsaverylot's review against another edition
4.0
Perspective is key. Lovely insights into the world of womanist activism.
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