The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

Glasgow’s sentence satirizes a culture that rewards volume and performance over substance. By twisting the biblical proverb “no prophet is accepted in his own country” into “no prophet is without honor” (so long as he can “strike an attitude” and speak loudly), she suggests that modern public life confers authority on those who master spectacle—posture, self-presentation, and sheer audibility—rather than on those with genuine insight. The line reads as a critique of publicity-driven opinion, where attention becomes a substitute for truth and where prophetic status is manufactured through charisma and noise. It also implies a warning: in a “vociferous” age, quieter or more complex voices risk being drowned out.