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" A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me. "
Career
Waiting
Thoughts
" As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer. "
Smart
More
Nation
" As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves. "
Life
Parents
Better
" Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction. "
Days
Attractive
Pursue
" Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat. "
Sunday
Path
Community
" Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage. "
Me
Beat
Campaign
" Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore. "
Just
Diversity
Big
" Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development. "
Good
Us
School
" Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. "
Grit
Intelligence
Predict
" Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that. "
Houston
Proud
People
" I believe in following opportunities. "
I Believe
Believe
Opportunities
" I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election. "
Believe
Winning
Election
" I don't claim any great experience or expertise. "
Expertise
Any
Experience
" If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself. "
Going
Change
Myself
" If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans. "
Day
Tools
Values
" I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table. "
Myself
Problem
Work
" I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them. "
Up
Idea
More
" I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx. "
Mother
Up
Man
" I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one. "
Always
Landscape
Reality
" In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together. "
Life
Night
School
" In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens. "
Journalism
Book
Parenting
" It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state. "
Red
Say
Truism
" I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland. "
Ohio
Always
Wanted
" I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer. "
Writer
Journalist
Basically
" I was a campaign widow. "
Campaign
Widow
" My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years. "
City
Language
Money
" My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid. "
Texas
Country
Drive
" New York City has an integration problem. "
New York
City
New
" Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance. "
Long
Trail
Student
" The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people. "
You
People
Treat
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