I Live And Die With The Chicago

I Admire About Hillary: Every Time I Am Going To Walk Away From Her Candidacy, I Think, She Has Absorbed More Hate Than Anyone I Can Think Of Over The Past Twenty Years, And She Hasn't Cracked Under It. That's A Kind Of Iron Fortitude That Maybe We Need In The President Of The United States. People Project On To Hillary Because She Is A Woman. They Either Hate Her For Everything They Hate About Women Or They Long For Her To Be Everything They Want In A Woman. It's An Impossible Burden.

I Always Wrote; My First Story Was Published In The Magazine The American Girl When I Was 11

I Was Reading Raymond Chandler Very Much With The Feminist Eye. In Six Of His Seven Novels, It's The Woman Who Presents Herself In A Sexual Way, Who Is The Main Bad Person. And Then You Start Reading More Fiction, Whether Crime Fiction Or Straight Fiction, It's Just Bad Girls Trying To Make Good Boys Do Bad Things, Going All The Way Back To Adam And Eve. The Woman That Thou Gavest Me Made Me Do It, Adam Says To God.

The Hope For A Messiah Puts Too Much On That One Person. And You Think That Absolves You Of Personal Responsibility And You Don't Have To Act Because That Person Will Do It For You.

The Day Of The March, We Were Forbidden To Go To The March Site. The Man I Worked For, The Presbyterian Minister, Knew We Would Want To Be Sort Of Martyrs For The Cause And Risk Arrest. He Didn't Want Any Of That Going On. So He Made Us Stay In The Neighborhood.