The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
Lillian SmithMan, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian SmithWhen you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian SmithNone but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.
Lillian SmithBelief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.
Lillian Smith