Barbara Gaines

“You feel a sense of relief that this very complex range of emotions can be shared.”

Ina Pinkney, Part 1

“That’s why everybody in my life gets a second chance.”

“I have never been this happy in my life. And I have had a hell of a life.”

“We don’t think every book should be free; we just think our books should be free.”

“I wonder if this is what it felt like in the sixties, just having these moments of, Wow, it can happen! ”

“When Gov. Walker signed that bill, teachers lost all of what we all had worked for. ”

“What are we going to do about this? Are we just going to live with it?”

“Push each other further out on the limb.”

“Having a great life, being happy, is work.”

“One of the highest values that you could say about anybody in the family was, he’s a worker.”