christine’s Reviews > The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax > Status Update

“I thought about our desire as readers to place our literary heroes on pedestals because their books have moved us with their beauty and wisdom. We don't seem to know how to deal with the lives and the works of writers who are at once revolutionary and deeply flawed. Some people may argue that they should be discarded altogether. But if we do that, we lose the lessons that past lives offer.“