A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
About Jane Smiley
Jane Smileyis an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
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A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
American novelist
Your sons weren’t made to like you. That’s what grandchildren are for.
American novelist
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
American novelist
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
American novelist
Oh, that sound? I’m in the hot tub, reading a novel.
American novelist