With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. – Peter Abrahams
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, Whos choreographing this stuff? – Sue Monk Kidd
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. – Alice Hamilton