Touch Sensitivity

Famous quotes containing the words touch and/or sensitivity:

    For, whom the Muses smile upon,
    And touch with soft persuasion,
    His words like a storm-wind can bring
    Terror and beauty on their wing;
    In his every syllable
    Lurketh nature veritable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
    Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)