Kathy

“This is who we are: the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“The most important message of this book, when considering the role the government should play in reproductive choices, is that people are able to make good decisions about their bodies, their childbearing, and their lives. People understand the consequences of abortion and the consequences of ongoing pregnancy and childbirth, and they can make that decision for themselves.”
― Diana Greene Foster, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“He was a poor man in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row