Famous quotes containing the words air, lines and/or flight:
“Only if loves fire with the breath
Of life be kindled, I doubt,
With our last air twill be breathd out,
And quenched with the cold of death.”
—Edward Herbert (15831648)
“I am so tired of taking to others
translating my life for the deaf, the blind,
the I really want to know what your life is like without giving up any of my privileges
to live it white women
the I want to live my white life with Third World womens style and keep my skin
class privileges dykes”
—Lorraine Bethel, African American lesbian feminist poet. What Chou Mean We, White Girl? Lines 49-54 (1979)
“Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other peoples comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.”
—Patricia Ireland (b. 1935)