Lotus Pedestal

Famous quotes containing the words lotus and/or pedestal:

“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)