"loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach"

“Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.”

“If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.”

Source : "Extended Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on New Pennsylvania Law Restricting Prisoners’ Speech". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 24, 2014.

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”

“Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.”

“Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time,”

“I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.”

Source : George Perle (1990). “The Listening Composer”, p.67, Univ of California Press

“You've got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you've got to believe that God has a reason for it and he's going to make everything good.”

“I'm not a lesbian, but my girlfriend is.”