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)

    “Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.”
    —Kate Millet (b. 1934)

    “Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)