“One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.”

FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

I’m natural, but I wear makeup seven days a week.

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That’s what its about at the end of the day.

I get a kick out of making a strangers day.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.