Famous quotes containing the words ghost and/or condition:
“Silence and passion, joy and peace,
An everlasting wash of air—
Rome’s ghost since her
decease.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“Romance reading and writing might be seen ... as a collectively elaborated female ritual through which women explore the consequences of their common social condition as the appendages of men and attempt to imagine a more perfect state where all the needs they so intensely feel and accept as given would be adequately addressed.”
—Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)