Outside world Quote 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…

— 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?”

— 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Piper Kerman

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Piper Kerman