Mom Was A Smoker. My Grandfather Was

I Spent Part Of My College Years In A Marxist Commune. I Was Not A Marxist. I Wasn't Even Pretending To Be One. I Was A Marxist-in-law.

I Think That The Cold War Was An Exceptional And Unnecessary Piece Of Cruelty.

There Weren't Too Many Books By Women That Were Taught In School, So I Read Those On My Own, And The Books I Read Were As Accessible As The Ones We Were Reading In School.

Charles Dickens Was An Avid Seeker Of Names - He Read Directories And Looked For Odd Names On Gravestones.

It Still Astounds Me, After Forty Years, That There Is No Good Bread Between Chicago And San Francisco.