I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
Marilynne RobinsonMore generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.
Marilynne RobinsonIt was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.
Marilynne Robinson