"It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it."

“I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

“I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.”

“Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.”

“Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go.”

Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.”

“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”

“I never had a brian till freak came along.”

“...when we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls...”