Men Earn

Famous quotes containing the words men and/or earn:

    No man will be present in those mysteries,
    yet all men will kneel,
    no man will be potent,
    important,
    yet all men will feel
    what it is to be a woman.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)