Circumstance Entails Exposures

Famous quotes containing the words circumstance and/or entails:

    “If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    “Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.”
    —Nancy Chodorow, U.S. professor, and sociologist. The Reproduction of Mothering Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, ch. 2 (1978)