Quote of the day
All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.
Helen Hodgman

Born: April 27, 1945
Died: June 6, 2022 (aged 77)
Bio: Helen Hodgman was an Australian novelist. She won the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award for her novel Jack and Jill. She also won the 1989 Christina Stead Fiction Prize for the novel Broken Words.
Known for:
- Passing remarks (1996)
- Waiting for Matindi (1998)
- Blue Skies (1976)
- Jack and Jill (1978)
- Broken Words (1988)






