Chronic illness Quote by Piper Kerman

“You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.” quote by Piper Kerman — Download Open image

““You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.””

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“Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other people?”

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“Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.”

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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…

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“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…

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“I had long recognized that faith helped people understand their relationship to their community. In the best cases it helped women in Danbury focus on what they had to give instead of what they wanted. And that was a good thing. So for all my scoffing at "holy rollers," was it such a bad thing if faith helped someone understand…

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

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“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.”

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“If you had the misfortune of having the government intimately involved with your life, whether via public housing or Medicaid or food stamps, then…

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“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…

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“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 to get health care services that people with no money could afford. He didn't tell us how we could quickly obtain birth control and other reproductive health services. He didn't recommend any solutions for behavioral or…

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“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…

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