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Women’s liberation comes from the inside, and some of the outdated thought patterns of my childhood have been slow to dissolve. This aversion to eating alone was one of the last to go. Read More

Whatever your view of powers greater than you, there are others within your group who are fighting gun violence. Find them. Read More

I thought to myself that the people of this church do as they say they do. There are no excuses on a Saturday afternoon. They were there for their brother and for you and really for all of us. Read More

I, the happy, hopeful, hippy cannot connect to this disjointed, disaffected, nihilist. Her goals trickle only so faintly outside of herself. Read More

The champion toilet name is “The Great Niagara,” the name of my toilet in Athens, Greece in the 1960s. Read More

The body is a giant signal of well-being, and doing yoga gives it a way to send that signal loud and clear. Read More

We have never known characters who are quite like them, yet they stand there fully human. The story is a little bit like a dream or a nightmare, but it has blood . Read More

It is a unique kind of literature, written by a first-time author who is an artist to his fingertips but has probably never taken a writing course. Read More

I doubt that Min Jin Lee began her book as a didactic exercise in tolerating prejudice and cruelty – there is way too much humanity in it for that, but we can use it to examine our own reactions to injustice. Read More