Manners are the ability to ...

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.
 Tina Brown

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Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.
 Tina Brown
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment
 Tina Brown