Kathryn Harrison : (4)

" ‘Madame Bovary’ advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one. " - Kathryn Harrison

" Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in. " - Kathryn Harrison

" By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years. " - Kathryn Harrison

" The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years’ War and of history. " - Kathryn Harrison