Our friend Amber Vandermeulen, a third grade teacher in the Kent school system, said that she and her husband had just read Half the Sky to one another on their last road-trip and she thought I might like it. She didn’t say a thing more. I cracked it open…. and everything was forever changed.
Half the Sky is a collection of stories about heros, written by Pulitzer prize winning NY Times columnists and authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The two reporters are married and often write that treasured breed of articles you find yourself referring to again and again.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
Both a brutal awakening and an unmistakable call to action, this book should be read by all. – Melinda Gates