Famous quotes containing the words heir and/or male:
“Tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th first.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal, that we can understand our past through a male lensif we are unaware that women even have a historywe live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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