Famous quotes containing the words carroll and/or myth:
“A thick stick in one’s hand makes people respectful.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman—a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)