Famous quotes containing the words authority and/or figure:
“Women who assume authority are unnatural. Unnatural women are lesbians. Therefore all the leaders of the womens movement were presumed to be lesbians.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 8 (1980)
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
—Walter Lippmann (18891974)