Famous quotes containing the words ritual and/or baths:
“Romance reading and writing might be seen ... as a collectively elaborated female ritual through which women explore the consequences of their common social condition as the appendages of men and attempt to imagine a more perfect state where all the needs they so intensely feel and accept as given would be adequately addressed.”
—Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)
“After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)