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“I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.”
“The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.”
“Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.”
“If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.”
“I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.”
“My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.”
“Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.”
“I was a campaign widow.”
“In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.”
“I believe in following opportunities.”
“There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.”
“You have to follow that next step.”
“I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.”
“Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.”
“It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.”
“The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.”
“In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.”
“Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.”
“The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.”
“The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.”