Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Born: February 24, 1942 (age 83)
Bio: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Known for:
- A critique of postcolonial reason (1999)
- Outside in the teaching machine (1993)
- The post-colonial critic (1990)
- Death of a discipline (2003)
- In other worlds (1987)