Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth, city and/or county:
“...we avoid hospitals because ... theyll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you still have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like Exhibit A and Exhibit B. Like, Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, shes in such good shape.... . Most of the time they dont even treat you like a person, just an object.”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilledor would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed?”
—Edmund White (b. 1940)
“But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)