Marilynne Robinson Quotes
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
Robinson, Marilynne. The Givenness of Things: Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Bashir Assad responded to some peaceful protests triggered by the Arab Spring throughout the Middle East by allowing his security forces to shoot unarmed demonstrating civilians and shelling with artillery to and apartment buildings of neighborhoods where there were large numbers of demonstrators. So many thousands of civilians were liked that the protestors, who initially only wanted more freedom, also demanded Assad’s resignation and his trial for war crimes by the World Court. Baker did not think that Assad could hold power very much longer.
At the time in Britain, women who gave birth to out-of-wedlock children were not only disgraced, but also disciminated agains them in almost every phase of life. Poor single women would be fired by their employers even if it was the employer who had impregnated her. Few would hire a woman who had given birth to a bastard child. As a resukt of this terrible pressure on women, many would murder their own new-born child, and others would "leave it to others".
Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016.
