Tuned Major Thirds

Famous quotes containing the words tuned and/or major:

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)

“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)