Famous quotes containing the words roman and/or authority:
“The Roman Empire stood appalled:
It dropped the reins of peace and war
When that fierce virgin and her Star
Out of the fabulous darkness called.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Women who assume authority are unnatural. Unnatural women are lesbians. Therefore all the leaders of the womens movement were presumed to be lesbians.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 8 (1980)