Famous quotes containing the words child and/or heap:
“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from implodingand this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)
“Squalor spreads its hideous length
through the carts and the asses feet,
squalor coils and reopens
and creeps under barrow
and heap of refuse....”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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