Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino’s alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
My husband and I don’t have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we’d have felt about them playing football. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what’s left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran’s nuclear program. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote