Famous quotes containing the words time, function and/or execution:
“We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a life-work of teaching, of social workwe know that we would lay it down with hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“Morality and its victim, the motherwhat a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”
—Emma Goldman (18691940)
“If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. Its better to live somehow than not at all.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)