"Barbara Johnson" was an American literary critic and translator, born in Boston. She was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. Her scholarship incorporated a variety of structuralism/structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives—including deconstruction, Jacques Lacan/Lacanian psychoanalysis, and feminist theory—into a critical, interdisciplinary study of literature. As a scholar, teacher, and translator, Johnson helped make the theories of French philosopher Jacques Derrida accessible to English-speaking audiences in the United States at a time when they had just begun to gain recognition in France. Accordingly, she is often associated with the "Yale school/Yale School" of academic literary criticism.

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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

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No one likes change but babies in diapers.

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I felt like those who were least able to generate additional income were the most affected. I really had no idea this was under consideration.

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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life in the next.

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The feeling among the retirees is this (termination) was not a legal action. This, of course, was a surprise and unsettling, to say the least.

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It gives me an opportunity to go shopping and cleaning.

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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

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Just respect me. Don't come around no more.

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This first week in July is showing the biggest up since earlier in the year. ...One would hope that we're starting to see an up-current.

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