"I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that"

“I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.”

Source : "Mrs. Harris Tells Court She Wanted Her Suicide To Be 'a Private Death'" by James Feron, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 1981.

“From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.”

Source : Interview with Angela Page, "Folk Plus", WJFF Radio, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

“Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.”

“For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

“Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.”

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”

“Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.”

“Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.”