Provincial Youth Parliaments

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or youth:

    “The dead level of provincial existence.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman’s movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)