"Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them."

“I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.”

“I had a 20-year, stellar government career.”

Source : "Linda Tripp on 'Larry King Live'". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.

“Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.”

“I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.”

“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”

“I'm always going to be just me.”

“Isn't it about time you fought back?”

Source : Penelope Douglas (2014). “Bully”, p.34, Penguin

“Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!”