One thing about Guantรกnamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.
Molly CrabappleYou start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.
Molly CrabappleI absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.
Molly CrabappleThe occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.
Molly Crabapple