"...in Manhattan the income gap between rich and poor is greater than in Guatemala, and within the U.S. is surpassed only by a group of 70 households near a former leper colony in Hawaii." -- NY Times

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. " -- Edmund Burke

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat..." -- Rebecca West, 1913

"I don't know if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." -- Samuel Clemens