Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
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.
I was never much of a kid person. I mean, I thought they were cute to look at, but I didn't want them in my house.
You can insist on a different end to the story.
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.