Redeeming Social Importance

Famous quotes containing the words redeeming, social and/or importance:

    “Now you rise,
    a city from the sea,
    born long before Alexandria was,
    straightway from God you have come
    into your redeeming skin.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it. Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.”
    —Tama Janowitz (b. 1957)

    “... women especially seem to have very little idea of the importance of business time.”
    —Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)