Common Shell

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or shell:

“What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“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)