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Piper Kerman Quote: “When I walked through the terrifying gates of the FCI seven months before, I certainly didn’t look like a gangster, but I had a gangster mentality. Gangsters only care about themselves and theirs. My overwhelming regret over my actions was because of the trauma I had caused my loved ones and the consequences I was facing.”

101. “When I walked through the terrifying gates of the FCI seven months before, I certainly didn’t look like a gangster, but I had a gangster mentality. Gangsters only care about themselves and theirs. My overwhelming regret over my actions was because of the trauma I had caused my loved ones and the consequences I was facing.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “It seemed to me that my total demonstrated failure at being a good girl was more than matched by the urgency of being a good person.”

102. “It seemed to me that my total demonstrated failure at being a good girl was more than matched by the urgency of being a good person.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “The release of so much collective happiness in that miserable place was almost too much for me. It was like hot and cold air colliding, creating a tornado right inside the hall.”

103. “The release of so much collective happiness in that miserable place was almost too much for me. It was like hot and cold air colliding, creating a tornado right inside the hall.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “Before I went to Danbury a friend of a friend of a friend who had served a year in federal women’s prison spoke to me about what to expect, and she said something that stayed with me: ‘Not a day goes by that I don’t think about prison in some way.”

104. “Before I went to Danbury a friend of a friend of a friend who had served a year in federal women’s prison spoke to me about what to expect, and she said something that stayed with me: ‘Not a day goes by that I don’t think about prison in some way.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “When we got back to the States, I took the first flight to California I could get. From the safety of the West Coast I broke all ties with Nora and put my criminal life behind me.”

105. “When we got back to the States, I took the first flight to California I could get. From the safety of the West Coast I broke all ties with Nora and put my criminal life behind me.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “From a young age I had learned to get over – to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer.”

106. “From a young age I had learned to get over – to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “We were scared – two hundred prisoners alone with one guard having a psychotic break.”

107. “We were scared – two hundred prisoners alone with one guard having a psychotic break.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “Small involvement in the drug trade could land you in prison for many years, especially if you had a lousy court-appointed lawyer.”

108. “Small involvement in the drug trade could land you in prison for many years, especially if you had a lousy court-appointed lawyer.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “Any self-respecting New York woman has a good pedicure, even if she’s in the clink.”

109. “Any self-respecting New York woman has a good pedicure, even if she’s in the clink.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “I also gleaned that just about all of the women in Chicago were on pretrial status – their cases had not yet been resolved, but they did not or could not make bail. So they were captive here while the wheels of justice ground. A couple of them had been here for months without being charged with a crime. This made their lives uncertain on every level, and those who were not already crazy were acting pretty wacko, driven nuts by rage and instability.”

110. “I also gleaned that just about all of the women in Chicago were on pretrial status – their cases had not yet been resolved, but they did not or could not make bail. So they were captive here while the wheels of justice ground. A couple of them had been here for months without being charged with a crime. This made their lives uncertain on every level, and those who were not already crazy were acting pretty wacko, driven nuts by rage and instability.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “How could I admit that the All-American Girl’s force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn’t working, wasn’t keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From.”

111. “How could I admit that the All-American Girl’s force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn’t working, wasn’t keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “Rose, chatting in the midst of a pedicure one day, told me what she had learned from her faith; I thought later that hers were the most powerful words a person could utter: “I’ve got a lot to give.”

112. “Rose, chatting in the midst of a pedicure one day, told me what she had learned from her faith; I thought later that hers were the most powerful words a person could utter: “I’ve got a lot to give.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “I was so disgusted with the BOP’s farcical prerelease program that I just shut my eyes and waited for it to be over. One.”

113. “I was so disgusted with the BOP’s farcical prerelease program that I just shut my eyes and waited for it to be over. One.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “It was hard for me to believe that the nature of our crimes was what accounted for my fifteen-month sentence versus some of my neighbors’ much lengthier ones. I had a fantastic private attorney and a country-club suit to go with my blond bob. Compared.”

114. “It was hard for me to believe that the nature of our crimes was what accounted for my fifteen-month sentence versus some of my neighbors’ much lengthier ones. I had a fantastic private attorney and a country-club suit to go with my blond bob. Compared.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “He became distinctly less fun.”

115. “He became distinctly less fun.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “Under the Volcano.”

116. “Under the Volcano.”

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Piper Kerman Quote: “Well, that little woman, who never said boo to no one, put two locks in a sock, and she let that girl know what time it was.”

117. “Well, that little woman, who never said boo to no one, put two locks in a sock, and she let that girl know what time it was.”

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