things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.
Josephine Winslow JohnsonYou can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.
Josephine Winslow JohnsonWe are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.
Josephine Winslow Johnson