Famous quotes containing the words district, state and/or committee:
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“The only way into truth is through ones own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
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