Opposition

Famous quotes containing the word opposition:

“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)

“Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)