A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara KingsolverIndependence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
Barbara KingsolverIt's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
Barbara KingsolverIn a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
Barbara Kingsolver