When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them. Michael Morpurgo Read Quote
Women, you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. Jada Pinkett Smith Read Quote
Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate. Sheldon Whitehouse Read Quote
Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an ‘appropriate’ life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what’s to keep it from happening to me or you? Hilton Als Read Quote
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
It’s great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker. Mary Beard Read Quote
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences. Virginia Postrel Read Quote
