Potential Race

Famous quotes containing the words potential and/or race:

    Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daughters: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters’ potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.
    Elizabeth Debold (20th century)

    The race may or may not be to the swift,
    but tell me, is it likely
    that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)