Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:
“Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“... the darkness,
Inviting to this house
Air from a field, air from a salt grave ...”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Well encounter opposition, wont we, if we give women the same education that we give to men, Socrates says to Galucon. For then wed have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem. ... Convention and habit are womens enemies here, and reason their ally.”
—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)