5 Quotes from "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison

These are the five quotes I liked the best from "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison:

• She learned that bathing naked in the river was a sin; that plucking cherries from a tree burdened with them was theft; that to eat corn mush with one's fingers was perverse.
• Religion, as Rebekka experienced it from her mother, was a flame fueled by a wondrous hatred.
• Weak as her faith was, there was no excuse for not protecting the soul of an infant from eternal perdition.
• Although they had nothing in common with the views of each other, they had everything in common with one thing: the promise and threat of men.
• To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal.