Thin Double Layer

Famous quotes containing the words thin, double and/or layer:

    “Why does the thin grey strand
    Floating up from the forgotten
    Cigarette between my fingers,
    Why does it trouble me?”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Women have acquired equal place to man in society, but the double standard has really never been relinquished; certainly not by men. Modern man’s fear of passivity or of the active woman proves to be as eternal as modern woman’s struggle to come to terms with her femininity.”
    —Peter Blos (20th century)

    “The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)