Clergyman's

“I am a diamond in the rut. A diamond to an untrained eye looks like a rock stone. So men will kick it around on the ground. It takes a man with an expert eye for fine Jewelry to notice its worth. Do not feel bad when men treat you like the little boys in Africa who gave away stones in exchange for candy. The hungry boys thought they were getting something better but had exchange wealth for a sugar high. Some men will do that. Exchange a valuable woman for the transient high of another. The boys didn’t know better and so do some of these men. They don’t know your worth.”
— Crystal Evans

“The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss’s performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.”
— Chris Matthews

“I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.”
— Sue Monk Kidd