Don’t Forget to Write

by Sara Goodman Confino

It would be nice to have someone who doesn’t look like a constipated Howdy Doody running the country.

We can only teach them to fish. We can’t also teach them to cook, chew, and swallow.”

The world loves to destroy what it doesn’t understand. Some things can be hidden to be protected. Some can’t.”

I couldn’t go back into a cage and sing and pretend I was happy.

You, my girl, are a phoenix. And it may feel like the end of the world, but you will rise from the ashes into something even stronger.”

A gilded cage is still a cage. Most people don’t see the bars that hold them. You and I do.”