It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
If it's great stuff the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago when books of poems were best-sellers.
Undernourished intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen filled with nothing the body can use.
Healthy children are born from healthy respected well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.