What ultimately kept me sane was that so much of what was going on was insane. What I had done was the honest, the right and the correct thing to do.
What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
My childhood was one of a lot of hard work and not much money, but it was one of solid family affection, as represented by my parents.
Well, they've caused me to realize that as an individual I have a lot of responsibility, certainly, but that now I have even more responsibility.