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Quote by Jennifer Shahade

“I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.”

Author

Jennifer Shahade, born on December 31, 1980, is a renowned chess player. She is highly respected in the chess community for her exceptional skills and unique playing style. Shahade has won numerous chess championships and is well-known both domestically and internationally. Her games are appreciated by chess enthusiasts around the world. more

“Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male-dominated fields.”

World Book Ideas Play Fields Reader Thousand Sells Males Feminist Spread Chess Titles Copies Fewer

Author:Jennifer Shahade

“The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.”

Criticism Edges Disappear Edifice Comprehending

Book:Homiletics and Pastoral Theology

Source: Homiletics and Pastoral Theology

“There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.”

Culture Needed Discipline Demand Clamor

Book:Literary Essays

Source: Literary Essays

“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.”