What I Didn’t Say in My Memoir
Q. Dear Susie – From Tony S.
When I read your memoir, I couldn’t get over was that you are only 3 years older than me and yet that story of your life sounds like it came from a different chapter of modern history than the one I lived in.
I lived on the San Francisco Peninsula until I turned twenty-one. The world and the people you describe only entered my life through news stories and arguments at the dinner table.
Susie: I grew up in big cities, where we only "read" about your bizarre life in the suburbs!
Q. After a life spent campaigning for compassion and justice in so many different venues, what happened to you when you settled down and write your memoirs? Do you keep fighting? Do you take satisfaction in having put in your time and let others fight the fight after you?
A. I get a kick out of this image of me you have of me wrapped in a shawl, knitting and browsing seed catalogs, picking up my fountain pen …