Brood Parasitism

Famous quotes containing the words brood and/or parasitism:

    One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
    Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

    [Woman’s] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.
    Emma Goldman (1869–1940)