Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“A turning point in modern history.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

“The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)