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“A community is like that shawl, and once you are a part of it, you tie your fate to the threads closest to you.” (The Downstairs Girl Quotes)
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“As long as you have a home, you have a place to plan and dream.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“Black women suffered greatly with the failure of Reconstruction, victims of both racism and sexism. Suffrage leaders who had worked toward the idea of universal suffrage antebellum began turning their backs on their black sisters to court the support of white Southern suffragists, whose interest in restoring white supremacy eclipsed their interest in enfranchising women.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“Dignity can only be surrendered, and when it is gone, we are like the snail who has lost its shell. All it can do is find the nearest leaf and hope it’s not parade day.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“Justice and fairness are for other people, umbrellas that open only for certain heads. The Chinese just try to stay out of the rain, and if we are caught in a downpour, we make do, knowing that the rain will not last forever.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“One should never confuse cost with value.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“Sometimes things fall apart so better things can come together.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“Sometimes, things must get harder before they can change.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“The biggest threats are the ones we fail to acknowledge”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“The husband business strikes Miss Sweetie as uncannily similar to the scramble that ensues during an Easter egg hunt, where the egg’s only hope is to sit as prettily as possible so that the it will be picked up before it spoils”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“The knowledge that the person to whom I am writing is also writing just one floor above me makes my shadow sit up straighter, and if shadows had smiles, I might see one reflected there.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“The men are not friends, but surely seeing the same person every day for twenty years fies them in your life in some way.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“There are some people, when you meet them, you feel as if you’ve known them all your life. And then there are people who live under your nose all your life, yet you don’t know them at all.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“We are all like candles, and whether we are single or joined with another does not affect how brightly we can burn. Respectfully submitted, Miss Sweetie”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“We can run the race as well as any man. We only need the opportunity.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“What is the job of a parent but to teach a child that she has worth so that one day she can transform herself into whatever she wants.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“When I began my women’s cycles, the only thing Old Gin said about it was that all meadows, after an awkward stretch as a thicket, eventually ripen into beautiful forests.”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
“You’re growing like a rumor, aren’t you?”
Stacey Lee
The Downstairs Girl
