For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. – James McGreevey
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a mortal sin subject to damnation. – James McGreevey
I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts – protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. – James McGreevey
You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public. – James McGreevey
The trouble with anyone when theyre unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but dont know what to do about is that they cant see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isnt there anymore, you have to do something about it. – Penelope Wilton
A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America