it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.