Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort but it's so worth it.
Well the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion but in fact what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
When you're going through something whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody you often feel like 'Oh my God I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact poetry's a nice reminder that no everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities to join the Peace Corps to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights social justice the economy and everything.
After my mom died there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing her real intellectual curiosity.
In terms of my marriage you know falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
