Modern Era

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or era:

“... it must be obvious that in the agitation preceding the enactment of [protective] laws the zeal of the reformers would be second to the zeal of the highly paid night-workers who are anxious to hold their trade against an invasion of skilled women. To this sort of interference with her working life the modern woman can have but one attitude: I am not a child.”
—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)