Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnsonwas 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 structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives—including deconstruction, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth4 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
violets are God's apology for February ...
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
My karma just ran over my dogma.
As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
Smile...it kills time between disasters.
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.