Famous quotes containing the words power and/or constraint:
“Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until youve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
“In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her fathers house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husbands is almost a cloister.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)