Quotes from Marcia Clark

But I have a deep and abiding aversion to financial investments of any kind. It's not based on anything as intelligent as research or experience. It's just that I don't trust anyone. To me, giving someone else money to invest is just an invitation to rip me off. Not a particularly sophisticated attitude, but I am who I am.

I gazed out the window and wished for the thousandth time that rape were punishable by penis removal… with a rusty knife.

If popular opinion and celebrity and fame and the politically correct view is going to be what really sways the jury, if the jury will disregard the law, disregard the evidence, and everyone expects it to happen, then why bother? Have

some trace and leaves some trace of himself—or herself—at any location visited. So

people should be able to see our justice system at work, not least because individual cases can bring to light widespread social problems. Media

There was nothing on my calendar to indicate that this would be anything other than a short-skirt day. No need for a "believe me" suit.

Being attractive matters everywhere—getting jobs, getting laid, and yes, getting acquitted by a jury of your peers. No one can resist a pretty face. As long as it's not too pretty. Back

Counsel's sarcasm is inappropriate.

Hate is not an emotion that a prosecutor can afford. Hate clouds your thinking and distorts your priorities.

Every year, 4,744,000 women in the United States are physically assaulted by their partners.

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head.

Every day, three women are murdered by their male partners.

This doesn't mean anything about the real world and the way justice is dispensed. Or the way it should be dispensed. It won't always be this way. It may never be this way again. Ahead

I shook my head.

Their children had been killed in a school bus accident. Or, more likely, a school shooting.

I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman. Surprisingly,

Boys who see their fathers beat their mothers will likely grow up to be men who beat their wives.

one here can tell me anything." Eric put his hands in his pockets, then looked away. "What? What?

For some reason, no matter how much I hate a book, I can never manage to just stop reading—I have to see it through to the bitter end.

How often in life do you get to see the right foot meet the right ass at kicking time?

I wish that one of us had been endowed with some mystical gift of prescience that would have warned us off this train wreck. But you make your decision with the best information you have at the time.

Give us either bright sun or pouring rain—the in-between stuff depresses me.

Sometimes things are less than they seem.

The furniture was average, nondescript—somewhere between high-end and yard-sale