“Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.”
“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
“Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.”
“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.”