Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or society:
“A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)