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> [“The female guard in R&D explained that they had no women's street clothes, so she gave me the smallest pair of men's jeans they had, a green polo shirt, a windbreaker, and a cheap pair of fake-suede lace-up shoes with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/the-female-guard-in-r-d-explained-that-they-had-no-women-s-street/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

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## More by Piper Kerman

> [“I looked down at the doors of the forbidden Dorms and studiously examined the bulletin boards covered with incomprehensible information about events and rules…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/i-looked-down-at-the-doors-of-the-forbidden-dorms-and-studiously/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other people?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/stoicism-sure-comes-in-handy-when-they-take-away-your-underpants-but/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/some-of-the-mothers-looked-overwhelmed-they-were-no-longer-accustomed/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“The female guard in R&D explained that they had no women's street clothes, so she gave me the smallest pair of men's jeans they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/the-female-guard-in-r-d-explained-that-they-had-no-women-s-street/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“I had forgotten about the pleasures of college radio, the exquisite randomness of what got played, the twenty-minute between-songs banter of nineteen-year-olds, the smack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/i-had-forgotten-about-the-pleasures-of-college-radio-the-exquisite/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“I had long recognized that faith helped people understand their relationship to their community. In the best cases it helped women in Danbury focus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/i-had-long-recognized-that-faith-helped-people-understand-their/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/we-have-a-racially-based-justice-system-that-overpunishes-fails-to/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“If he is a half-decent human being, he will find himself the object of crushes. If he is a cocky bastard, even more so.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/if-he-is-a-half-decent-human-being-he-will-find-himself-the-object-of/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“If you had the misfortune of having the government intimately involved with your life, whether via public housing or Medicaid or food stamps, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/if-you-had-the-misfortune-of-having-the-government-intimately/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/prison-is-quite-literally-a-ghetto-in-the-most-classic-sense-of-the/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“He told us that it was important to eat right, exercise, and treat your body as a temple. But he didn't tell us how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/he-told-us-that-it-was-important-to-eat-right-exercise-and-treat-your/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“According to the CDC, cigarettes kill over 435,000 people a year in the United States. Most of us in Danbury were locked away for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/according-to-the-cdc-cigarettes-kill-over-435-000-people-a-year-in/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“The public expects sentences to be punitive but also rehabilitative; however, what we expect and what we get from our prisons are very different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/the-public-expects-sentences-to-be-punitive-but-also-rehabilitative/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/nothing-about-the-daily-workings-of-the-prison-system-focuses-its/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

> [“According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order. He described the basic idea like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piper-kerman/according-to-bertrand-russell-the-virtuous-stoic-was-one-whose-will/)

[Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piper-kerman/)

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