Describing

Famous quotes containing the word describing:

    “A family with the wrong members in control—that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “In describing someone’s character, I reveal my own.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.”
    —Naomi Weisstein, U.S. psychologist, feminist, and author. Psychology Constructs the Female (1969)