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"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."
"Time management is a big part of the director's job."
"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
"While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things."
Explore more quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."
"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."
"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."
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