Famous quotes containing the words fountain, pens and/or accept:
“Dont say, dont say there is no water
to solace the dryness at our hearts.
I have seen
the fountain springing out of the rock wall
and you drinking there.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“... feminism is the attempt of women to grow up, to accept the responsibilities of life, to outgrow those characteristics of childhoodselfishness and unworldlinessthat we require our boys to outgrow, but that we permit and by our social system encourage our girls to retain.”
—Henrietta Rodman (1878?)
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