Part 3: Section 23 Summary

Ann Pasternak Slater wrote that she first met Aung San Suu Kyi when they attended St. Hugh's College at Oxford (their friends were primarily Indian and African). Later, as adults, the two became neighbors: she described Aung San Suu Kyi as a talented, self- disciplined young woman who, like the rest of her species, had her frustrations and triumphs. She was additionally, her friend writes, an accomplished seamstress.

Part 3: Section 23 Analysis

These are the words of a school friend and later adult neighbor. Of her many qualities, this friend wrote, the one that stands out most is her egalitarianism. She concluded the essay with a line from Yeats: "'But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you.'"