Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.
I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.