Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang.

If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls.

The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I was not the popular kid in school.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.