Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen. Joanne Greenberg More Quotes by Joanne Greenberg More Quotes From Joanne Greenberg And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live. Joanne Greenberg strong mistake sweet Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. Joanne Greenberg inmates sometimes world To praise one thing is not to damn another. Joanne Greenberg one-thing damn praise A nut is someone whose noose broke. Joanne Greenberg nooses broke nuts Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank? Joanne Greenberg money real believe What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away? Joanne Greenberg gone-away mother baby suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last. Joanne Greenberg defense lasts suicide Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax. Joanne Greenberg bangs cutting brain I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others. Joanne Greenberg dozen sin found