When one is in danger of complacency or inertia, the examples of others can often serve as a zesty tonic. To wit: these three extraordinary women I met this week.
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From the category archives:
Get Wise
C’mon, fess up: you never really read Ethan Frome or Jude the Obscure or even the full text of Romeo and Juliet back in high school. Or perhaps you did: the braces made you an indoor kid — I’m speaking from experience here — and you’ve since forgotten everything.
I know a number of people who deem fiction irrelevant, but I hold most fervent the notion that literature can sometimes teach us, or remind us, about how to live. Case in point: E.M. Forster, the 19th-and-20th century British chronicler who wrote some of the most utterly elegant, beautiful prose in the English language. His works, some of which were lovingly adapted to the screen by Merchant Ivory, include Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room With a View and Maurice.
Even if you never again return to his books, books that were foisted on us well before we were truly ready to digest their wonders, know that Forster wrote two words that, when we remember them, can instantly enrich our relationships.
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