Only her work matters
Diane KEATON is a professional woman with a large and impressive body of work, but in “Falling in Love? It’s Just an Act,” by Dana Kennedy (Dec. 14), those accomplishments are eclipsed by the fact that she has chosen not to marry.
Is the idea of a successful, independent, beautiful woman who chooses to be single so subversive and incomprehensible that several pages of a major newspaper are devoted to it? When George Clooney has a movie released, The Times does not spend pages of print speculating about his status as a committed bachelor. A lot of women aspire to things other than being someone’s wife; marriage is not necessary for a woman to feel fulfilled, validated and important in the world.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Dec. 21, 2003 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Sunday December 21, 2003 Home Edition Sunday Calendar Part E Page 2 Calendar Desk 1 inches; 35 words Type of Material: Correction
Editors’ note: Last Sunday’s featured letter was written by Daniel Halpern, who defended Edith Grossman’s translation of “Don Quixote” from criticism in another reader’s letter. Halpern should have been identified as publisher of that translation.
Wake up, it’s 2003, not 1956.
Michele Greene
Los Angeles
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Editors’ note: Last Sunday’s featured letter was written by Daniel Halpern, who defended Edith Grossman’s translation of “Don Quixote” from criticism in another reader’s letter. Halpern should have been identified as publisher of that translation.
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