"Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments . . . for the one million girls who have very little use for them."

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Source : Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.23, The Overlook Press

Gail Parent

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“We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards othersâ€”both human and animal.”

Source : "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.
“â€¦find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.”
“I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.”
“The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.”
“The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.”
“Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.”
“When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel. It just took me a really long time to get to a place where I felt comfortable with the material and the recording.”

Source : "Jenny Lewis and the New". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2014.
“Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.”

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