Sublime

Annie, only stabbed.

Anthony began life as a shy Quaker girl—given to melancholy, “fragility,” and extreme self-doubt.

she was a pistol, utterly unafraid to speak truth, no matter how ugly, to anyone, no matter how powerful.

one of the old hands had been put in his place. Hence in the future I

She was born a Quaker. As such, she found herself in a vastly different social milieu than other American girls—a world with at least a window open to other possibilities. Her family believed in absolute equality of the sexes.

One of those state killer squads, she said, had ambushed and shot real milkman, then they took him to the hospital, the hospital being the very place where everybody knew, owing to stigma of informer status, that if you had political ailments it was never safe to go.

my aunt Alice walked in, a malnourished harpy in a housecoat,