Criticism
In 1985, Saturday Review magazine named her one of the country's “Most Overrated People in American Arts and Letters,” commenting that "over the years an unhappy transition from writing history as a moral lesson to writing moral lessons as history.”
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.”
—Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897)
“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)