Represent Parallel Notions

Famous quotes containing the words represent, parallel and/or notions:

    ““Moo” may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “If from the earth we came, it was an earth
    That bore us as a part of all the things
    It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
    Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
    Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows
    The same. We parallel the mother’s death.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)