Posted by: Kate | August 14, 2009

Friday Quote

As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who will settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together, that they come from a “broken home”.

– “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” by Joan Didion

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  1. Hmmm…I have to think about this one. What’s the premise of this particular book?


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