“Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.”

“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.”

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.”

“A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.”

“A Man can Live two Weeks without Food,go two days without Water,and two minutes without Air,and apparently,an entire lifetime without a BRAIN.”

“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without the stomach for it, but on and on and on, without relief, without release, without a hand to reach out and touch her heart. Without kindness or comfort. But on. Forced into such poverty, imprisoned in such despair, there was only one thing she was sure she could do. She could survive.”