One of the great authors of the last century recently died.  She was also known for her role in feminism.  Her death made worldwide news - she previously won the Nobel Prize for Literature and she was very closely connected to South Africa.  She grew up in what is now Zimbabwe, living in what was then called Salisbury.  She eventually was banned from South Africa and Zimbabwe and declared the “prohibited alien” because of her criticism of apartheid.  Amongst her famous books are “Children of Violence” and “The Golden Notebook”.  I particularly enjoyed some of the quotes that they gave in her obituary such as, “In University, they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”  Another one I like is, “Remember that the book that bores when you are 20 or 30 will open doors for you when you are 40 or 50 and vice versa.  Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”  That is so true of many things, not just books.  Lastly, “What is terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work where you know quite well you are capable of better.”