Famous quotes containing the words mathematical and/or union:
“An accurate charting of the American womans progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of timebut like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.”
—Susan Faludi (20th century)
“She had brought love to the union and he had brought a longing after the flesh.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)