摘要
每个人都是一个矛盾的结合体，我们不能绝对地把自己归为某一类人。而奥巴马的母亲，至少可以同时属于十几类人。奥巴马的母亲S.A．索多洛曾是一个少女妈妈，但后来却获得了人类学博士学位；她出生于富裕的美国中西部，却在印度尼西亚生活得更舒适自在；她是一个天生的母亲，却又是一个工作狂人；她浪漫，却又现实——如果可能的话。
Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama＇s mother was at least a dozen things. S. A. Soetoro was a teenage mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology;a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work ; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible.
