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Mary Cheney
American
Celebrity
About the author
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#President
#Marriage
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Ability
#Sleep
The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Vice
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Time
#Politics
Early numbers are always wrong.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Wrong
#Numbers
Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Life
#Parents
#Possibility
#Newspapers
Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Pretty
I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Time
#School
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Home
#Job
#Office
#Quitting
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Being
#Vice
#Office
Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Life
#Lie
John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Truth
#Lesbian
I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Pretty
There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#People
#states
#United
#Gay
It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Boss
#News
It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Years
#Marriage
#Opposition
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Day
#Family
#Car
#School
#Parents
#Gay
In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Gay
#Teenagers
I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#First
#Gay
I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
Mary Cheney,
American
Celebrity
#Daughter
#President
#Vice
#Lesbian