In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.
We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.
I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.
The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.
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.
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.
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
I grew up in New York, I love New York.
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
Change isn't easy, it takes time.
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.
