Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from A Worn Path.
Perseverance Quotes
She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her. This made a grave and persistent noise in the still air that seemed meditative...
Versions of Reality Quotes
Her fingers were busy and intent, but her skirts were full and long, so that before she could pull them free in one place they were caught in another. It was not possible to allow the dress to tear...
Old Age Quotes
She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather c...
Race Quotes
Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods. (1)
Contrasting Regions Quotes
On she went. The woods were deep and still. The sun made the pine needles almost too bright to look at, up where the wind rocked. The cones dropped as light as feathers. (4)