Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.