Eleanor Roosevelt. Shirley Chisholm. Margaret Trudeau. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must…
Monday Ménage: Trivial Men. Pure Wind. Politics.
Nathan. Orwell. Chisholm. Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan. Political language is designed…
Monday Ménage: History. Heart. Housewife.
Shirley Chisholm. Frances E.W. Harper. Florynce Kennedy. I want history to remember me not just as the first Black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first Black woman to have…
Monday Ménage: Equality. Benefits. Change.
Shirley Chisholm. Thurgood Marshall. Barack Obama. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth
Lewis. Chisholm. Cooper. Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom…
Monday Ménage
Shirley Chisholm. Eleanor Roosevelt. Hillary Clinton. Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is “don’t rock the boat.” If someone makes trouble and you can get him,…
Monday Ménage
Frances Harper. Shirley Chisholm. Florynce Kennedy. I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages of education,…