I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.
On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
Look, there's no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes.
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
