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“Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.”
Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
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“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”
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“That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.”
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“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.”
Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media
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“It's seriously unfortunate when an elected official of the federal government says she's [Michelle Bachmann] going to deliberately break the law. I don't know what kind of signal she thinks that sends, but if she believes that's a good signal, I'm sad for the country. I think that it's deeply, deeply, unfortunate that a member of Congress would, in effect, invite other people who feel that way to say, "Well, I don't have to do it either."”
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“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
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“In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.”
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“I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.”
Source : "Chloe Sevigny: the interview" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010. 
