“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
— Mae West
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
— Sylvia Plath
“Even though we all know the facts, it’s hard to resist the lure of a tan. ”
— Jane Krakowski
“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose.
My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
— Warsan Shire
“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”
— Mark Twain
“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that’s a trap too.
Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.”
— James A. Baldwin
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind / Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
— Euripides, Orestes
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
— Winston Churchill
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. ”
— Frederick Douglass
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
— Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous
are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
— Primo Levi
“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who
are doing something you don’t believe is right.”
— Jane Goodall
“What I hear when I’m being yelled at is people caring really loudly at me.”
— Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), Parks and Recreation
Student Conference Coordinators
Emma Arroyo
Hanna Fahsholtz
Jade Matias-Bell
Jasper McEvoy
Michael O’Krent
Pournami Rajeev
Marianna Shakhnazaryan
Soraya Simi
Lilla Spanyi
Alyssa Tsenter
Madeline White
Ben Wu
Kelsi Yu