Famous quotes containing the words shape, parameters and/or approach:
“somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seemsbut as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
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