Martha

“Remember the world from back when you couldn't even find out if you had strep throat without a doctor calling the wall phone in your kitchen? Now you just click into your computer and discover that you have cancer - or that you have - I'm seeing this now - a white-blood-cell disorder called leukopenia - or that they've scheduled your autopsy.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“There is an old saying you sometimes hear in law school: “A students become professors, B students become judges, and C students become trial lawyers.” In other”
― Matt Murphy, The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death

“Due process, I said to myself. Amos was entitled to due process. For the first time, the words sounded in my head more like “bureaucratic process.” In any case to which I was appointed, it was my job to defend, the DA’s to prosecute, the judge’s to referee, and the jury’s to sort the facts. This system, in which I had been trained and in which I believed, provided justice only if all played their roles well. It wasn’t my role to jump the rails and determine right from wrong, guilty from innocent.”
― Rebecca Wright Stevens, Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

“I just didn’t know how to set boundaries with men who wanted things from me.”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice