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Nanny Inspirational Quotes (41)

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When I was six years old, my mother died and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.
Louise Brown
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I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.
Elin Nordegren
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Death is better than slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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There must be sophistry in all this but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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In the beginning, you tamp down the animosity for the kids' sake. I'm not going to deny that I went through the wringer. But I don't think I doubted we'd end up here. That was always my dream, that the kids can have two loving parents that show respect for each other. And I feel that's what they have.
Elin Nordegren
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The war of my life had begun and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds but God let it live.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.
Elin Nordegren
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