Left Ideal

Famous quotes containing the words left and/or ideal:

    Weaker and weaker, the sunlight falls
    In the afternoon. The proud and the strong
    Have departed.
    Those that are left are the unaccomplished,
    The finally human,
    Natives of a dwindled sphere.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The ideal of men and women sharing equally in parenting and working is a vision still. What would it be like if women and men were less different from each other, if our worlds were not so foreign? A male friend who shares daily parenting told me that he knows at his very core what his wife’s loving for their daughter feels like, and that this knowing creates a stronger bond between them.
    —Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 6 (1978)