Greek novels usually were about a man and a woman, young,rich,who see each other and fall madly in love and passionately want one another.

希腊小说通常是关于男人与女人，年轻，富有，一见钟情,渴望对方。

新约课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

All the women in Dean's life call him to the carpet and tell him of all his sins. That's a sad moment in the novel, a moment of difficulty, a moment of specificity also.

所有在迪安生命里出现的女人都向他,斥责他所有的罪恶，这也是小说中悲伤地部分，是困难的时刻，也是专属于他的时刻。

1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

美国内战与重建课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课