"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
― Oprah Winfrey
Topic(s):
Age
More From Oprah Winfrey
- "As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around."
- "Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
- "What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives."
More In Age
- "I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that."― Evel Knievel
- "He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age."― Derek Jacobi
- "If you start writing to an audience you’re talking down to them. I’ve never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you’ll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for ‘Twilight,’ it’s a pretty wide range."― Melissa Rosenberg