Life Sentence

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or sentence:

    “In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.”
    —Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)