Equivalent Strength

Famous quotes containing the words equivalent and/or strength:

“Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)

“... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)