Famous quotes containing the word corner:
“I have never been able to accept the two great laws of humanitythat youre always being suppressed if youre inspired and always being pushed into the corner if youre exceptional. I wont be cornered and I wont stay suppressed.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)
“I used to join the murmurings about Where are the qualified women? As we murmured, we would all gaze about the room, up toward the chandelier, into the corner behind the potted palm, under the napkin, hoping perhaps that qualified women would pop out like leprechauns.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 5 (1980)
“... research is never completed ... Around the corner lurks another possibility of interview, another book to read, a courthouse to explore, a document to verify.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (18971973)