The frontier will nevertheless survive in.... : Quote by Shirley Abbott

“ 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
  • From : Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
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