"I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass."

“To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.”

“The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.”

Source : Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.41, Random House

“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.”

Source : Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.167, Penguin

“We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.”

Source : "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". www.imdb.com. 1989.

“Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the private banks, will be much more efficient, productive and even democratic if they are left to themselves: in other words, the criticism of the Fed really reflects a desire to cripple the government in the service of increasing the power and authority of the market.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.”

“It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.”

“History is not was, it is.”