Hillary's friend, Mary, writes a moving tribute: Voting with Your Head and Your Heart

[Rose Siding]

Voting with Your Head and Your Heart
Mary Steenburgen
I listened to the radio today as I drove to work on the set of The Last Man on Earth. I heard a young man in Iowa was trying to decide who to vote for, torn between his head and his heart. His heart wanted Bernie Sanders and his head told him to vote for Hillary Clinton. I found myself wishing that I could meet him and speak to both his head and his heart.

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So I will vote for Hillary with my head and my heart. I will be hopeful that a woman who does think before she speaks is not completely perceived as "guarded," because a man who thinks before he speaks is called "thoughtful." I will hope that people's hearts are touched by her life of service to this country and even the world, that is second to none. I love that my friend, who has seen many of the world's sorrows, is still outraged about what has happened in Flint, Mich. And that fierceness is true to her. There has been no numbing, no inuring, on her part, to the mountains that people face. I LOVE that she has that edge. And I love that she chooses her words in a world where we hang on every one. Much of what is said about her tells us much more about ourselves; how we all still struggle with what a woman in a position of power is supposed to sound like and be like.

But I want every young woman to be as unafraid of her fantastic potential as my friend, the young Hillary Clinton was, and I wish for all of us grandmothers, the still fierce caring for the world, the beautiful well-earned edges and the impenetrable sense of humor that she has today. True, I'm extremely biased, but it's a bias born of knowing someone for almost forty years. So if that helps your heart at all, you're welcome.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-steenburgen/voting-with-your-head--yo_b_9104038.html

They've been friends for a long time.

[Iliyah]

1. K & R

[pandr32]

2. I would think that after 40 yrs

Mary would know her friend really well. My head and heart are united in support of Hillary Clinton, too.

[Lucinda]

3. That was wonderful.

She is a very good writer.

[Cha]

4. Cool! Mary is too Cool to feel the bern.. lol..

Thank you for this, rivers!