I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
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Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
Making trails and building a tree house.
Being at peace with God.
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First a horse rancher, then a dancer.
Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.
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