Famous quotes containing the words home, rule and/or assembly:
“A home without a catand a wellfed, wellpetted and properly revered catmay be a home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Until the Womens Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that hed like to publish more of my poems, but hed already published one by a woman that month ... this attitude was the rule rather than the exception, until the mid-sixties. Highest compliment was to be told, You write like a man.”
—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)