Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.