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The Downstairs Girl QUOTES

The Downstairs Girl QUOTES

1 " Folks care less about which door Chinese people use nowadays, compared with when the laborers were shipped in to replace the field slaves after the war. Perhaps whites feel the same way about us as they do about ladybugs: A few are fine, but a swarm turns the stomach "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

2 " The two words that will change your life are "thank you". Like a candle that can light a thousand more without shortening its own life, appreciation is a gift that, when given, can set the whole world aglow. "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

3 " The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

4 " I have been blacklisted. Servants are routinely blacklisted when their services come to an end, even when they have done nothing to deserve it, except working their fingers to the breaking point each day, coming in early, leaving late, cleaning up other people's messes, "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

5 " They don't want to be men, only to be allowed to have a say. God wouldn't have given us feet if He didn't want us to walk. By the same token, why give us a brain if He didn't want us to have thoughts? "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

6 " With the proper training and advantages, I think any horse can be great. Family name is a burden unique to humans "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

7 " The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend. "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

8 " What is the job of a parent, but to teach a child she has worth so that one day she can transform herself into whatever she wants. "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

9 " We can run the race as well as any man. We only need the opportunity. "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

10 " You’re growing like a rumor, aren’t you? "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

11 " 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

12 " Sometimes, things must get harder before they can change. "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " A blessing loves a good surprise. "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

16 " When deception is not an issue, words should be taken at face value, or else they are in danger of losing their currency "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

17 " It strikes me that money can alleviate many of the miseries of common folk, but it opens up other avenues of suffering "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

18 " Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. Lost trust takes time to rebuild. But with consistency and humility, the diamond can be unearthed again. "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl

19 " 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

20 " The Fifteenth was supposed to improve our lot, giving our men the vote. But the man started taking it all away. It's like they put a plate of hot biscuits in front of us, but before we get a chance to eat, they say that'll be five dollars. And if you come up with the five dollars, they say no, no, no. You gotta tell us, if you got sixteen hens and thirty-seven rooster, where is Rutherford B. Hayes buried?... It's a trick question. Hayes is still alive. Point is they make it so hard "

― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl