Famous quotes containing the words measuring and/or chain:
“... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
—William James (1842–1910)