You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Alphonse Allais, Writer (1854) |
Chris Cannon, Politician (1950) |
John Dewey, Philosopher (1859) |
Peter G. Fitzgerald, Politician (1960) |
Dan Fogler, Comedian (1976) |
Theodore Hall, Criminal (1925) |
Kamala Harris, Lawyer (1964) |
Charles Ives, Composer (1874) |
Wanda Jackson, Musician (1937) |
Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright (1946) |
Grace Darling, Celebrity (1842) |
Eugene V. Debs, Politician (1926) |
Burt Lancaster, Actor (1994) |