Quote of the day
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Laura Furman

Born: 1945 (age 80)
Bio: Laura J. Furman is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere'.
Known for:
- The Mother Who Stayed: Stories (2011)
- Ordinary paradise (1998)
- Tuxedo Park (1986)
- Drinking with the cook (2001)
- The Shadow Line (1982)






