Claudia Roth Pierpont

“By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
― Claudia Roth Pierpont, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World

“contain. “You must change your life.” And if we hardly know ourselves, “what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people?” Zuckerman poses the question in American”
― Claudia Roth Pierpont, Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books