"How rarely does a potent dream come true and how even more rarely can the experience be communicated. Stunned by an exhibit of Amish quilts, Sue Bender sensed that they came not only from craft and art but from a design for living that she must discover and learn from. Plain and Simple tells us in controlled, powerful, unsentimental language exactly what she found in Amish country and took into herself. Her readers will be astonished by and grateful for the fruit she … mehroffers them. I have not read such a nourishing book for a long time." May Sarton weniger