Red Cross Societies

Famous quotes containing the words red, cross and/or societies:

    “Her breasts under her gown
    are cold,
    for a flower has grown,
    murex-red
    on the red gown.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)