“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsStatesDoneFactsLawUnitedRoomsMistakeUnited StatesOur LivesRiskWorstDrugTenLimitsFirst TimeSentencesSpeedHarmCriminalsMilesSmokingPrivacyMaking MistakesSinnerServingMarijuanaOffenseWorst ThingsLiving RoomUnheardFreewaysSpeed LimitsPeople Make Mistakes Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!” YearsWellsBookActionUsedReadingFunFeltHoursRoomsHalfFiveSharePrivacyCommentMy SisterApartmentBathroomHalf A Year Author:Gail Carson Levine
“Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.” PeopleNeedsMotherRoomsRightsLessonsValuablePrivacyRespecting OthersValuable Lessons Author:Doris Lessing
“You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your room, like your privacy's not being invaded. But there's nothing like walking back into a clean room. You've got to remember that.” ThinkingMayRememberRoomsNiceLike YouWalkingAdvantageCleanPrivacyYour Room Author:Mitch Hedberg
“If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.” IfsPersonsRealNightDarkRoomsSexyReal LifePrivacyDesksDark Room Author:Aaron Sorkin
“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.” MeanWomenSpaceRoomsMillionsRightsWrittenFeminismSolitudeFeministPsychologicalAbortionPrivacyDesertedAbortion Rights Author:Florence King
“I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.” KnowsWritingFirstsChildrenBookWould BeMy OwnRoomsFictionDoorsPrivacyFragile Author:Marge Piercy
“I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.” MenRoomsSightKitchenPrivacyBedroomTeenageJeansLiving RoomTight Jeans Author:Ruth Westheimer