Famous quotes containing the words london, power and/or company:
“The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing ones clean linen in public.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“A photo of someone elses childhood,
a garden in another countryworld
he had no part in and has no power to imagine:
yet the old man who has failed his memory
keens over the picture Them happy days
gonegone for ever!”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Well encounter opposition, wont we, if we give women the same education that we give to men, Socrates says to Galucon. For then wed have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem. ... Convention and habit are womens enemies here, and reason their ally.”
—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)