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My life has been defined by my love of words, literature and theater. Most of all, it has been defined by sharing my love of words and reading with my students.
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"One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits"
-Fay Weldon
-Fay Weldon
"Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world." -Sonia Sotomayor
"But I learned to keep a firm hold on my ambitions nevertheless. I also learned how to embrace risk and cope with failure. We underestimate the significance of how to handle failure by encouraging people — especially young people — to avoid it, ignore it or dismiss it. Better to accept it, grapple with it and appreciate what it teaches." - Gina Barreca
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"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
-Maya Angelou
-Maya Angelou
"I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values."
-Ellen Degeneres
-Ellen Degeneres
"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
-Diane Setterfield
-Diane Setterfield
HOW TO RAISE A READERBy Pamela Paul and Maria Russo
From the moment you’re expecting your first child, you are bombarded with messages about the importance of reading. For good reason: The benefits of reading at every stage of a child’s development are well documented. Happily, raising a reader is fun, rewarding and relatively easy.
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