[Judy Price] Osgood was among about half a dozen [Hillary] Clinton friends who I sat down with more than a year ago before she announced her candidacy.
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!
I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.
Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay. . . Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
We must not forget either that some of the system's resilience is due to its ability to coopt people with money and prestige. It is easy to get sucked right in. Those who grasp the system are also likely to be talented and capable of doing well within the system. Who will turn down a lot of money? Who doesn't have an ego? A compromise here, another one there, and pretty soon, you are sucked right in.
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
I let people down easy with inspiration.
Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.
You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.
I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.
It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.