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Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida r...

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida r...

Tags: dolor, papisa, woolfolk

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then re...

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then re...

Tags: god, knowledge, latin, reason, st augustine

About Author
Donna Woolfolk Cross (born 1947) is an American writer and the author of the novel Pope Joan, about a female Catholic Pope from 853 to 855. She is the daughter of Dorothy Woolfolk, a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry, and of novelist William Woolfolk.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

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This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Tags: living without regrets, nonconformity, pope joan

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

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She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was made from common clay. Woman should be preferred to man because Eve was created inside Paradise, bu...

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Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was made from common clay. Woman should be preferred to man because Eve was created inside Paradise, bu...

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

Tags: want, way

The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into t...

Donna Woolfolk Cross

The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into t...

Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

Some ideas are dangerous.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Some ideas are dangerous.

Tags: philosophy, thinking, women

For Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

For Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Tags: hope

Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him,...

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him,...

Pope Joan was an excellent read.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Pope Joan was an excellent read.

It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

Tags: child

Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.

To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

And the Daughter.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

And the Daughter.

Primicerius? He was young, it was

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Primicerius? He was young, it was