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In Her Own Words 

My Father's Gift

“My father suffered the same persecution as did Galileo before him. Nevertheless, he stood stoutly by his convictions and did not yield to persecution. Something of this independence was his gift to me. Thus I have known well the necessity to escape a spiritual prison.”

From For Spacious Skies: Journey in Dialogue by Pearl S. Buck with Theodore F. Harris