Lyn Jensen

“I am neither an accountant nor a lawyer, and I am not sure that I would be able to make sense of all this even if I were. After talking with each of the Crickets, with Petty, with the Holleys and Maria Elena and others who were close to the situation, it is my own judgement that Holly and the Crickets never received much of what was rightfully theirs--although they may well have been paid all that was legally due to them. In the entertainment industry, even more than in other businesses, what is fair and what is legal are often worlds apart. This is just my opinion and others may conclude differently.”
― John Goldrosen and John Beecher, Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography Of Buddy Holly

“In any competitive society, woman is necessarily condemned to a position of inferiority by the burdens of maternity.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism (Classic Reprint) by Upton Sinclair

“My mother's mother's family moved north from Mexico having migrated from Spain, from Portugal, from Ireland, and likely from an Indian village somewhere.”
― Gerald W. Haslam, Coming of Age in California: Personal Essays

“In England where the radicals were allowed to gather in Hyde Park and say what they chose, crimes of political violence were practically unknown. On the other hand, in America, where it was customary for the police to arrest radicals and club and jail them, such crimes were common.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism