"Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it."

“And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.”

Source : Jimmy Santiago Baca (2004). “Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

“The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.”

“One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.”

“You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.”

“Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.”

“To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.”

Source : "Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.”

“Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your mailman.”

Source : "Cate Edwards: What No One Knows About My Mother, Elizabeth Edwards". www.glamour.com. October 6, 2011.