Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
From Anna Quindlen
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
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