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.
Joan Acocella

Born: April 13, 1945
Died: January 7, 2024 (aged 78)
Bio: Joan Acocella was an American journalist who was the dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She wrote several books on dance, literature, and psychology.
Known for:
- Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (2007)
- Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (2000)
- Creating Hysteria (1999)
- Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives (1977)
- Mark Morris (1993)







