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Barbara Artson

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Barbara Artson is a retired psychoanalyst who calls San Francisco her home. She regularly contributes essays and reviews of films and books to professional journals. In addition to a Ph.D. in psychology she holds both B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature, and taught Shakespeare as a graduate student while also completing the unfinished Dickens novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, years before the musical production on Broadway.

Like Dora in the novel, Artson’s own mother worked in a New York garment factory, stitching elastic to the waistbands of women’s bloomers. This photo of her was taken in the early 1920s when she was 19. By the end of that decade she was raising her own family, building a new life in America.

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Shepherd is a new book discovery website that is like wandering around your favorite bookstore but reimagined for the online world. They asked me to recommend some books and here are my recommendations on why immigrants leave their country of origin and the riches they bring to their new country.

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The Patience Stone: A Novel

by Atiq Rahimi (Goodreads Author)

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The Emergency: A Novel

by George Packer

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Raising Hare: A Memoir

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“No one is free until we are all free.

Dr. Martin Luther King”
― Barbara Artson

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“Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
Rosa Luxemburg”
― Barbara Artson

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“V.S. Naipaul
Every serious writer has to be original; he cannot be content to do or to offer a version of what has been done before.”
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Barbara’s Quotes

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa

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“No one is free until we are all free.

Dr. Martin Luther King”
― Barbara Artson

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner