In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.