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In Her Own Words 

Haunted by Children

“Indignation is one of the greatest motive energies in creative life—perhaps the greatest. Is love not involved? It is indeed and it is basic, for indignation springs from love, violated—love of a person, love of humanity. Had I not loved children, would their faces have haunted me?”

From For Spacious Skies: Journey in Dialogue by Pearl S. Buck with Theodore F. Harris