Famous quotes containing the words single and/or room:
“What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (18741965)
“Its true, as Marya Mannes says: No one believes [a womans] time to be sacred. A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)