Shirley Abbott

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes–to me a beatitude–is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women–or men–can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes–to me a beatitude–is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women–or men–can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

– Shirley Abbott –

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

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