The women made a plan to dig their own graves and they said, "We will stand beside our graves because we are not moving from here.... You can shoot and we will lie in our land forever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went back to my work, but now without enthusiasm. I had looked through an open door that I was not willing to see shut upon me. ...I began to reflect upon life rather seriously for a girl of twelve or thirteen. What was I here for? What could I make of myself? Must I submit to be carried along with the current, and do just what everybody else did?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tattoo-shops, consulates, grim head-scarfed wives; And out beyond its mortgaged half-built edges... Fast-shadowed wheat-fields, running high as hedges, Isolate villages, where removed lives Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so... help me God. Amen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Salmon, shad, and alewives were formerly abundant here, and taken in weirs by the Indians ... until the dam and afterward the cana...l at Billerica, and the factories at Lowell, put an end to their migrations hitherward; though it is thought that a few more enterprising shad may still occasionally be seen in this part of the river.... Perchance, after a few thousands of years, if the fishes will be patient, and pass their summers elsewhere meanwhile, nature will have leveled the Billerica dam, and the Lowell factories, and the Grass-ground River run clear again, to be explored by new migratory shoals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we returned ... a Province man was betraying his greenness to the Yankees by his questions. Why Province money won't pass her...e at par, when States' money is good at Fredericton,--though this, perhaps, was sensible enough. From what I saw then, it appears that the Province man was now the only real Jonathan, or raw country bumpkin, left so far behind by his enterprising neighbors that he didn't know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity for politics and whittling, and rapid traveling, which the Yankees have, and who are leaving the mother country behind in the variety of their notions and inventions. The possession and exercise of practical talent merely are a sure and rapid means of intellectual culture and independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »