Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.