Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.