A Mistake Is Simply Another

No One Can Avoid Aging, But Aging Productively Is Something Else.

To Me, Working Is A Form Of Sustenance, Like Food Or Water, And Nearly As Essential.

So Few Grown Women Like Their Lives.

For More Than Eight Decades, Washington Has Been My Hometown. ... It Is A City That Offers Me More People -- More Different Kinds Of People -- Than I Could Otherwise Possibly Have Come To Know In A Lifetime: The Native Washingtonian, The Local Merchant, The Foreign Diplomat, The Ever-present Tourist, The Public Servant, The Journalist, The President, The Friend.

In Washington, The Public And The Private Intertwine In Such A Way That They Can't Be Easily Separated. This Is The City Where The Personal And The Political Are Most Closely Linked.