"I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free."

“The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?”

“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press

“My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.”

“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”

“I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.”

“The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.”

“You're going to lose it when you follow the world "feel" with the words "because I think". Any time you are thinking, your chance of getting what you need is greatly decreased, especially when you follow the word "think" with the word "you". I predict you won't only not get heard, but I predict a defensive aggressive reaction.”