A Few Words from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"...I do not feel that Americans need any 'selling' to themselves. We are inclined to be a bit too self-satisfied as it is. I feel on the contrary, that we need to be made more aware of the discrepancy between our theories and our facts or practices. I feel that we need, as does every nation, to be less conscious of nationalism and more conscious of a general humanity."
--Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), American writer, from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Sojourner at Cross Creek by Elizabeth Silverthorne (Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1988).