"Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams."

“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.”

“Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it...”

“The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.”

“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”

Source : Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.897, Cambridge University Press

“Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.”

Source : "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

“Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

“We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.”