anecdote

From her bookish Ohio upbringing to her early forays into feature writing, her anecdotes sing with the pleasure of a person born to her passion and purpose.

But the fact Harris chose to include that anecdote speaks to the tetchiness underlying the warmth and fuzziness that California’s two most prominent Democrats put on public display.

When suffering is measured, it becomes harder to dismiss; when it is left uncounted, it drifts back into the realm of anecdote, where policymakers can insist the problem is exaggerated, isolated or even imaginary.

“The reason we don’t have great anecdotes from the shoot is we didn’t have time for anecdotes,” adds Sharman.

Over the next several months, I heard anecdotes like those all the time, from most of the women I knew and quite a few I didn’t.