Famous quotes containing the word long:
“... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I lovenot this efficient, philanthropic self.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“A long time ago people often said, Why did you become a teacher? Well, that was about the only decent thing when I was growing up for a girl to be. If you became a secretary ... you got a hard name.”
—Knowles Witcher Teel (b. c. 1906)
“To exist as an advertisement of her husbands income, or her fathers generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
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