Quotes & Sayings About Incarcerated Parents

I smile. But like anything you wear that doesn't fit, it pinches. — Jodi Picoult

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. — Mark Twain

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child. — Sam Brownback

While there is widespread recognition that the War on Drugs is racist and that politicians have refused to invest in jobs or schools in their communities, parents of offenders and ex-offenders still feel intense shame - shame that their children have turned to crime despite the lack of obvious alternatives. One mother of an incarcerated teen, Constance, described her angst this way: "Regardless of what you feel like you've done for your kid, it still comes back on you, and you feel like, 'Well, maybe I did something wrong. Maybe I messed up. You know, maybe if I had a did it this way, then it wouldn't a happened that way.'" After her son's arrest, she could not bring herself to tell friends and relatives and kept the family's suffering private. Constance is not alone. — Michelle Alexander

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them. — Siri Hustvedt

Properly speaking, a woman does not need mind either, for if she has brains she will have too high an opinion of herself, and take all sorts of ideas into her head. — Anton Chekhov

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work. — Temple Grandin

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him. — Henry James

Hey! I thought you said you were gay!" the man said accusingly.
Without missing a beat Jason said, "She is. I'm just her bitch. — R.L. Mathewson

That there's great joy in thanking. — Will Schwalbe

The character I'm playing in the film is this driven, workaholic lawyer who has never lost a case. When I'm playing him ... " He paused, his voice softening. Somehow they were now standing just inches apart. "I think of you." When their eyes met, Jason grinned and added, "With a penis. — Julie James

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. — Euripides

All color is no color. — Kenneth Clark

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort. — Lynn Coady

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn