Building Work

Famous quotes containing the words building and/or work:

    “And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
    A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)