Famous quotes containing the words early and/or decade:
“He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments of our fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769,... he had said of them, Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)