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" The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties. "

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" 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. "

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" Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists. "

" Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that. "

" It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state. "

" You have to follow that next step. "

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" 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. "

" Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. "

" 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. "

" There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights. "

" 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. "

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" Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage. "

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" 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. "

" I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland. "

" I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer. "

" I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx. "

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" I was a campaign widow. "

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" With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't claim any great experience or expertise. "

" The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings. "

" 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. "

" I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them. "

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" Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance. "

" I believe in following opportunities. "

" What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject. "

" New York City has an integration problem. "

" The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy. "

" If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself. "

" Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore. "