Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women…She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and...

For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, ‘To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.’ (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor’s grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)