“to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.”

“A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.”

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

“I cannot stay silent... I refuse to play a role in this massacre of people's happiness.”

“And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. ”

“standing on a cliffin a silent blizzard crumblingand dreaming of kaleidoscopesall the pieces always fit”