Norma Sue: An Ordinary Extraordinary Life Author: Norma Moretz Horvitz
Designer: Carley Wilson Brown
174 pages • Hardcover • 2nd Edition
Rock & Read Books; 2014
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Excerpt from “Safety”
“I had no books. We didn’t have much in the way of toys or, heaven forbid, jewelry, or things we could call our own. Children in Boone didn’t have much in the way of anything, just themselves. We played made-up games, told ghost stories and ran from each other. It sounds so simple but just running around the house or playing under the front porch was so much fun to us that having to stay indoors would be a punishment. I never felt deprived, because we didn’t know to want stuff.”
— “I know you are wondering how I pulled it off, getting through the first through twelfth grades without knowing how to read.”
— “The lawyer shook his head and made that tsk-tsk noise saying to me, ‘Naïve, silly little girl. Bosses don’t marry their secretaries. Jews don’t marry divorced Gentiles with a child.’”
— “Havelock Ellis, the British physician, writer and social reformer, probably got it right when he said, ‘All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and hanging on.’”
— “I never felt poor. I don’t feel rich. I do feel lucky.”
