Nothing Kinder Than Strangers. Nothing

I Admire About Hillary: Every Time I Am Going To Walk Away From Her Candidacy, I Think, She Has Absorbed More Hate Than Anyone I Can Think Of Over The Past Twenty Years, And She Hasn't Cracked Under It. That's A Kind Of Iron Fortitude That Maybe We Need In The President Of The United States. People Project On To Hillary Because She Is A Woman. They Either Hate Her For Everything They Hate About Women Or They Long For Her To Be Everything They Want In A Woman. It's An Impossible Burden.

I Realised I'd Never Climb Everest But Thought I Could Still Write A Book

All Food Starting With P Is Comfort Food: Pasta, Potato Chips, Pretzels, Peanut Butter, Pastrami, Pizza, Pastry.

It's Hard For Me To Believe That Just My Words On The Page Are Enough. I Ought To Be Out Physically Keeping Abortion Safe And Legal, Restoring The Fourth Amendment, Getting Clean Water Back Into Kentucky Since The Bush Administration Has Allowed Strip Miners To Fill It All Up With Slag. The List Is Endless. Bring It Down. Make It Small. Make It One Thing That You Can Do. It's Very Hard For Me To Remember That.

I Have One Vivid Memory Of One Of The Days That The Marches Were Taking Place. We Were In A Catholic, Predominantly Polish And Lithuanian Neighborhood. Chicago Is A Place Where People Define Themselves By Their Parish And By Their Ethnicity.