its the birthday of Grace Paley,
"The ladies who once wore I Like Ike buttons sat on the south side of the sandbox, and the rest of us who were revisionist Communist and revisionist Trotskyite and revisionist Zionist registered Democrats sat on the north side."
"I own two small boys...When I'm not furiously exhausted from my low-level job and that bedraggled soot-slimy house, I praise God for them."
and of Jim Harrison,
"...the stars and moon were a tonic after the dark lid of her thicket."
"The first step is to pee and make coffee, which I can deal with, and after that what happens is not in firm hands."