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We must remember that increasing living donation alone will not save enough lives. We must continue to educate the public about the importance of organ donation.


Patricia Adams

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PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i...
PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,...
PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent...
PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac...
PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would...
PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ...
PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall...
PATRICIA IRELAND They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney...
PATRICIA IRELAND Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ...
PATRICIA IRELAND I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so m...
PATRICIA IRELAND Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
PATRICIA IRELAND My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. T...
PATRICIA IRELAND I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to lead...
PATRICIA IRELAND The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statis...
PATRICIA IRELAND