Response
admin December 21st, 2007
“Getting a Grip is not an ordinary book: it’s more like a new pair of glasses, allowing you to see everything around you with greater clarity. Suddenly the world is more comprehensible, more manageable, even more beautiful. You won’t want to take them off.” —Barbara Kingsolver, author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
“There is a small number of people in every generation who are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Frances Moore Lappé is one of those.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of The United States
“Lappé has succeeded, masterfully … No popular intellectual has been so very successful in reshaping the character and content of debates about environmental and food policy as this remarkable woman … Lappé is saying what every presidential candidate should, and she is doing so with the boldness that is required …” —John Nichols, The Nation
“Displaying her usual laserlike logic … [Lappé’s] crystalline assessments virtually leap off the page. … [a] source of inspiration.” —Booklist
“Original … out-of-the-box …. If this book isn’t inspirational and helpful, then I don’t know what is.” —Tikkun
To Frances Moore Lappe, Thirty five years ago, I was a single parent with two children. I don’t think there was a household lacking a copy of” Diet for a Small Planet”. I am inspired by your consistency and nostalgic for the days when so many more of us got “involved”. A personal thanks for your awesome work. All The Best, Barbara Corning