A review by monique3
Outlawed by Anna North

dark emotional medium-paced

3.0

""We may be barren in body, dear Doctor, but we shall be fathers of many nations, fathers and mothers both. You see, when we found this land, I knew it was promised not just for us, but for the descendants of our minds and hearts, all those cast out of their homes and banished by their families, all those slandered and maligned, imprisoned and abused, for no crime but that God saw fit not to plant children in their wombs. I knew that we we would build a nation of the dispossessed, where we would be not barren women, but kings." Page 87

"It was also the feeling if doing something solely for its own sake, each moment not the beginning of the future, but its own, solitary now" Page 203

"This story ends in September in the year of our Lord 1895, when I came over the mountains a wife and a widow, a doctor and an outlaw, a robber and a killer and ever my mother's daughter, and set up shop in the surgery of Mrs. Alice Schaeffer and got to work." Page 260