Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws.

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe