Reading through the Night Quotes

“In my professional life, by contrast, I became a rebel and a game-changer. In my scholarly work I took controversial positions that exposed me to attack and ridicule, something which I both feared and enjoyed.”
― Jane Tompkins, Reading through the Night

“Mother Land provides evidence that growth in self-understanding can be achieved at a late stage of life -- Theroux is in his seventies -- evidence that the story is not over yet and that new insight and change can take place until the end.”
― Jane Tompkins, Reading through the Night

“I lived up to the wishes and expectations of people in authority, not because I was forced to, but because I wanted to. I didn't know anything else.”
― Jane Tompkins, Reading through the Night