The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

- Patricia Mcconnell

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

- Patricia Mcconnell

Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginni…

- Patricia Mcconnell

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

- Patricia Mcconnell

One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay…

- Patricia Mcconnell

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

- Patricia Mcconnell

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

- Patricia Mcconnell

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

- Patricia Mcconnell

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.

- Patricia Mcconnell