Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Janet Malcolm
Born: July 8, 1934
Died: June 16, 2021 (aged 86)
Bio: Janet Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová) was an American writer, journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), among other books.
Known for:
- The Journalist and the Murderer (1990)
- In the Freud Archives (1984)
- Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981)