Please join us in wishing Jill Ker Conway a happy 80th birthday! Australian writer and the first female president of Smith College, Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales in the outback of Australia on this day in 1934. “Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she could rest a troubled spirit. Her her lack of education was a real handicap, because she had no historical or philosophical perspective from which to analyze her own experience of grief and loss. Because we lived in a cultural wasteland of suburbia, there were no schools or evening classes she might have attended which could offer an intellectually disciplined approach to her quest. Nor were there any churches which might have offered comfort through the beauty of their liturgy.” ― Jill Ker Conway, The Road from Coorain
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 03:30:01 +0000
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