Modern Era

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or era:

“Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being.... Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

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