About her mother: "All I ever wanted was a mother who paid attention to me. She didn`t want girls. She thought we were trouble. She didn`t help with homework or teach me to sew or cook. She didn`t go to the school plays I was in or go to my high school graduation. When I started menstruating at 13, I thought I was dying because she never taught me anything about that." (LA Times 3-11-06)
- Bettie Page(Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while all other county schools exceed 90 percent. The state`s graduation rate is 85.9 percent.) We are by no stretch of the imagination happy with a 78 percent (graduation rate), ... The greatest single education issue we have to deal with is our drop-out rate.
- Dan Montgomery