Famous quotes containing the words recovery, tax and/or act:
“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (17411794)
“of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake,
centuries of books unwritten piled behind these shelves;
and we still have to stare into the absence
of men who would not, women who could not, speak
to our lifethis still unexcavated hole
called civilization, this act of translation, this half-world.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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