“Quick! Do a roly, roly poly!”

“When I was in college, the board game RISK was popular for a while. We’d get stoned and I’d stare at the little plastic pieces moving across the territories and get utterly confused about allies and enemies, arguing that nothing could be that black and white, complicating the whole notion of the game. But I understand that estrogen is my enemy now, the very thing that made me big-busted and fertile and a terrific nurser, has turned on me, inside my milk ducts where my body incubated nourishment that made my babies pink cheeked and roly-poly thighed. It’s all so twisted and ironic and confusing. Tamoxifen, a hero and a hazard, my breasts, a giver and taker of life, and I, the protagonist and the antagonist in this story”

“Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures".”

“Politics: A combination of "poli" meaning many, and "tics" meaning irritating little bugs.”

“Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash?”

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”