Julia Peterkin Quotes

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The dusk crept out across the fields wiping out the day's light.

Julia Peterkin

A windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

Julia Peterkin

Last night she got so vexed she wouldn't talk to him at all. She just swelled up like a toad-fish and sat and looked at the fire without cracking her teeth.

Julia Peterkin

Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.

Julia Peterkin

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

Julia Peterkin

Julia Peterkin

Julia Peterkin

Born: October 31, 1880

Died: 1961 (aged 80)

Bio: Julia Peterkin was an American author. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary.

Known for:

Scarlet Sister Mary (1928)
Black April (1927)
Green Thursday (1924)
Bright skin (1932)
A plantation Christmas (1934)

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