“The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide f...” — Claire Messud Quote

“The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.”

“They, too, carry the source within them. But for their children, cast into a windblown century without God, where is there to be but alone and unseen, anonymous in the crowd? Who will carry us back to a place that lives only in the vast imaginary? 'Do you not see how a caged bird, oh youth, / Breaks into song when it recalls its ancestral home?”