Separate Customs Territory

Famous quotes containing the words separate, customs and/or territory:

    “Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We found ourselves always torn between the mothers in our heads and the women we needed to become simply to stay alive.With one foot in the past and another in the future, we hobbled through first love, motherhood, marriage, divorce, careers, menopause, widowhood—never knowing what or who we were supposed to be, staking out new emotional territory at every turn—like pioneers.”
    —Erica Jong (20th century)