Jill Ker Conway 회고록 "True North"

Jill Ker Conway, "True North: A Memoir" (1994)

 

(Jill Ker Conway 에 대한 뉴욕타임즈 기사에서:

“Young women are trained to think they should marry

someone who is a great romantic love,” Dr. Conway told

The Globe and Mail of Canada in 2002. “You should really

marry someone who respects your working self and creative

ability and wants to enter into a relationship where each

supports the other. And that’s not the romantic story.”

 

Verlyn Klinkenborg, reviewing “The Road From Coorain” 

[Conway's first memoir, a best seller] in The New York Times,

called it “the work of a writer who relentlessly tugs at the

cultural fences around her until they collapse.)

 

 

아래는 책 본문에서:

 

"His moral integrity, courage, and devoution to humanistic

learning were certainly my compass point, the true north

one needed to to set directions on this continent. But I

now knew there were going to be times when I'd

have to navigate alone." (p. 132)

 

"But I wanted to live where there was some fairness and

recognition of the people and cultures our ancestors had

so unthinkingly despoiled." (p. 181)

 

"In coeducational academies, where the secondary role of

women students was not so vividly symbolized as at Oberlin,

trouble quickly developed between the sexes. Something

happened that no one had planned. Women did better

academically than men.... At Berkeley, the initial warm

welcome given women students by the men quickly

changed to hostility when they took most of the

academic laurels at year's end." (p. 238-239)