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We can no longer pretend there is a proper place and a proper occasion for politics. Robert Sobukwe

Sometimes I feel real calm and wise and accepting and other times I’m totally on the edge. When I wear the guise of alienated poet I do okay, everything seems if not actually good, then at least placable. When I try and wear the guise of a woman, it’s a disaster.

Lucy Grealy, to Ann Patchett