Top 80 Sarah Smarsh Quotes (2024 Update)
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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Where my earlier childhood years had been lonely and frustrating, my new reality was chaotic and confusing.”

51. “Where my earlier childhood years had been lonely and frustrating, my new reality was chaotic and confusing.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Our sense that our struggles were our own fault, our acceptance of the way things were, helped keep American industry humming to the benefit of the wealthy.”

52. “Our sense that our struggles were our own fault, our acceptance of the way things were, helped keep American industry humming to the benefit of the wealthy.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “He had left the farm in someone else’s hands for the weekend – the first time I’d seen him do so in my entire life – and that told me how much he cared.”

53. “He had left the farm in someone else’s hands for the weekend – the first time I’d seen him do so in my entire life – and that told me how much he cared.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Dad, however, didn’t take even the most benign aspirin – not thinking it harmful or ineffective but suspecting it amounted to money spent on something your body and mind could do on their own, for free and without side effects. Dad had a quiet inner life as a self-healer. Once in a while he shared it with me, and in that way he was the most maternal force in my life.”

54. “Dad, however, didn’t take even the most benign aspirin – not thinking it harmful or ineffective but suspecting it amounted to money spent on something your body and mind could do on their own, for free and without side effects. Dad had a quiet inner life as a self-healer. Once in a while he shared it with me, and in that way he was the most maternal force in my life.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “One develops a cunning to survive, whatever the shortage.”

55. “One develops a cunning to survive, whatever the shortage.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Places with banks, schools, stores, and county courthouses-let alone skyscrapers-represented to us a sort of power we were removed from, disenfranchisement not only by culture but by geographic distance.”

56. “Places with banks, schools, stores, and county courthouses-let alone skyscrapers-represented to us a sort of power we were removed from, disenfranchisement not only by culture but by geographic distance.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Your problems as a working-class girl would have included true peril.”

57. “Your problems as a working-class girl would have included true peril.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “We can’t really know what made us who we are. We can come to understand, though, what the world says we are.”

58. “We can’t really know what made us who we are. We can come to understand, though, what the world says we are.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “It was a severe serenity, doing whatever a moment required without complaint.”

59. “It was a severe serenity, doing whatever a moment required without complaint.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “There are pecking orders within pecking orders.”

60. “There are pecking orders within pecking orders.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “From what I’ve observed, a poor child’s agony is just as often for her parents as it is for herself. You could say that is still a selfish impulse, because in order for a child to survive, her parents must survive, too. But I felt my family’s burden as my own well past childhood.”

61. “From what I’ve observed, a poor child’s agony is just as often for her parents as it is for herself. You could say that is still a selfish impulse, because in order for a child to survive, her parents must survive, too. But I felt my family’s burden as my own well past childhood.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Money was what made the world go around, I learned fast... money was a lie-pieces of paper and metal suggesting prices for goods, services, labor and human beings themselves in a way that often had more to do with profit than with true value.”

62. “Money was what made the world go around, I learned fast... money was a lie-pieces of paper and metal suggesting prices for goods, services, labor and human beings themselves in a way that often had more to do with profit than with true value.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Like poor immigrants not so far back in our bloodline, we were raised to not expect much and to ask for even less.”

63. “Like poor immigrants not so far back in our bloodline, we were raised to not expect much and to ask for even less.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Theirs was not a world where natural gifts and interests decide your profession.”

64. “Theirs was not a world where natural gifts and interests decide your profession.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Though I wouldn’t know for years that I’d been an accident, I felt the knowledge at an atomic level.”

65. “Though I wouldn’t know for years that I’d been an accident, I felt the knowledge at an atomic level.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “I answered the question of whether I deserved to exist by working hard:.”

66. “I answered the question of whether I deserved to exist by working hard:.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Along with the freedom and the space, that is a blessing you would have received from the feral way that children among us lived: seeing blood every day on a kitten’s neck, a father’s hand, the ground beneath a slaughtered hog hanging from a hook. Knowing in your own bones how fragile and fleeting a body is.”

67. “Along with the freedom and the space, that is a blessing you would have received from the feral way that children among us lived: seeing blood every day on a kitten’s neck, a father’s hand, the ground beneath a slaughtered hog hanging from a hook. Knowing in your own bones how fragile and fleeting a body is.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “I kept you at arm’s length so long that the window for physical connection passed.”

68. “I kept you at arm’s length so long that the window for physical connection passed.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “He had the gifts I would have wanted most for you: humor and generosity.”

69. “He had the gifts I would have wanted most for you: humor and generosity.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Even though no one complained or maybe even realized it, I could feel that the people around me knew they were viewed as dispensable.”

70. “Even though no one complained or maybe even realized it, I could feel that the people around me knew they were viewed as dispensable.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “That sort of alchemy, assigning a meaning – turning what some might view as the lowly act of foraging into a direct communion with God, for instance – is often the only sort of power a poor person has.”

71. “That sort of alchemy, assigning a meaning – turning what some might view as the lowly act of foraging into a direct communion with God, for instance – is often the only sort of power a poor person has.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Mom would sacrifice true ownership and financial footing before she would sacrifice standard of living. Better to be in over your head with the bills in a house than own a trailer outright, she reasoned. It was all a game anyway, she said. The people making the rules were screwing around with debt bigger than she ever could. I can’t say that I completely agree.”

72. “Mom would sacrifice true ownership and financial footing before she would sacrifice standard of living. Better to be in over your head with the bills in a house than own a trailer outright, she reasoned. It was all a game anyway, she said. The people making the rules were screwing around with debt bigger than she ever could. I can’t say that I completely agree.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “I was a reader, when I could get ahold of something to read, and literature showed me places I’d never seen. Another art form, though, showed me my own place: country music. Its sincere lyrics and familiar accent confirmed, with triumph and sorrow, that my home – invisible or ridiculed elsewhere in news and popular culture – deserved to be known, and that it was complicated and good.”

73. “I was a reader, when I could get ahold of something to read, and literature showed me places I’d never seen. Another art form, though, showed me my own place: country music. Its sincere lyrics and familiar accent confirmed, with triumph and sorrow, that my home – invisible or ridiculed elsewhere in news and popular culture – deserved to be known, and that it was complicated and good.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “But I am not sorry that you never experienced the dangers of being devalued outside those farmhouse walls.”

74. “But I am not sorry that you never experienced the dangers of being devalued outside those farmhouse walls.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “The worse danger is not the job itself but the devaluing of those who do it. A society that considers your body dispensable will inflict a violence upon you.”

75. “The worse danger is not the job itself but the devaluing of those who do it. A society that considers your body dispensable will inflict a violence upon you.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “I liked how hospitals made people well behaved, as did libraries, Sunday Mass, and funerals.”

76. “I liked how hospitals made people well behaved, as did libraries, Sunday Mass, and funerals.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “There is, then, intellectual knowledge – the stuff of research studies and think pieces – and there is experiential knowing. Both are important, and women from all backgrounds might possess both. But we rarely exalt the knowing, which is the only kind of feminism many working women have.”

77. “There is, then, intellectual knowledge – the stuff of research studies and think pieces – and there is experiential knowing. Both are important, and women from all backgrounds might possess both. But we rarely exalt the knowing, which is the only kind of feminism many working women have.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “The woman who speaks about feminism is not always the one truly insisting on equality behind closed doors.”

78. “The woman who speaks about feminism is not always the one truly insisting on equality behind closed doors.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Political headlines were fixating on a hateful, sexist version of rural, working-class America that I did not recognize. Dolly’s music and life contained what I wanted to say about class, gender, and my female forebears: That country music by women was the formative feminist text of my life.”

79. “Political headlines were fixating on a hateful, sexist version of rural, working-class America that I did not recognize. Dolly’s music and life contained what I wanted to say about class, gender, and my female forebears: That country music by women was the formative feminist text of my life.”

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Sarah Smarsh Quote: “Parton’s musical genius deserves a discussion far beyond and above the matters of gender and class. But the lyrics she wrote are forever tied to the body that sang them, her success forever tied to having patterned her look after the “town trollop” of her native holler. For doing so, she received a fame laced with ridicule; during interviews in the 1970s and 1980s, both Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey asked her to stand up so they could point out, without humor, that she looked like a tramp.”

80. “Parton’s musical genius deserves a discussion far beyond and above the matters of gender and class. But the lyrics she wrote are forever tied to the body that sang them, her success forever tied to having patterned her look after the “town trollop” of her native holler. For doing so, she received a fame laced with ridicule; during interviews in the 1970s and 1980s, both Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey asked her to stand up so they could point out, without humor, that she looked like a tramp.”

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