I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
“We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No one reminds us… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
