"What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers."

“Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because thats what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.”

Source : Donna Freitas (2011). “The Survival Kit”, p.344, Macmillan

“I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.”

“I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.”

“I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.”

“The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.”

“The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.”

Source : "'Butting Heads with the Americans Doesn't Do Any Good'". Interview with Christian Schwärgerl and Markus Feldenkirchen, www.spiegel.de. January 29, 2008.

“Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.”

“I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.”