Quotes by : Piper Kerman

Great institutions have leaders who are proud of what they do, and who engage with everyone who makes....

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

In order for prisons to truly serve the public, the people who run them would do well to aspire to the....

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us....

Don't tell me what to do - you have eight numbers after your name just like me.

How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling....

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt.....

If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I....

No matter how stupid, how pointless, how painful my current situation was, as I listened to Mixtape every....

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.