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"A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing the bookshelves of the Brookline Public Library and came across a book called 'Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.'"

"In the summer of 1956, I called Manny Muravchik to ask to meet with him. I had been told that he knew just about everybody in the labor movement. "

"Ever since my mother died, I have been thinking about, and telling people, what a remarkable woman my mother was."

"My mother had an expression which struck me as a meanspirited put-down, but rather accurate: In Yiddish: 'A kee gayt tzum Kiev, un kimt fun Kiev, un blaybt a kee.'"

"Reading the NY Times November 25th I came upon Clyde Haberman’s 'NYC' column. Its head: 'Naming a Senator Who Can Follow Clinton’s Tough Act.' And its subhead: 'A black Catholic lesbian would do nicely, especially one from upstate.'"

"I recently read an excellent piece by Elaine Bernard of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program in the Fall 2008 issue of DSA’s Democratic Left."

"In May 1951, I had 'graduated' from the ILGWU Training Institute, but because I was now subject to the draft, I was not given an assignment."

"I clearly inherited my sense of Jewishness from my mother. "

"When I was in elementary and junior high school, I don’t remember art classes."

"I still remember the thrill I felt when I was given my first box of business cards."