Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 53, “We Margarets Walk” (p. 502)
“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real.”
As quoted in The Times [London] (27 June 1955)
Context: The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right — you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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