Famous quotes containing the word token:
“It doesnt make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, Im really happy that youre my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, heres a dollar.”
—Bill Cosby (20th century)
“To become a token womanwhether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sistersis to become something less than a man ... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophatMa token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)