Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.

That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.