Pedestal

Pedestal

Pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo, foot of a stall) is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase.

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Famous quotes containing the word pedestal:

    “Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space.”
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