Tuned Major Thirds

Famous quotes containing the words tuned and/or major:

“Pitiless verse? A few words tuned
And tuned and tuned and tuned.
It is good.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Let’s just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn’t just having a baby. It became a major healing.”
—Anne Taylor Fleming (20th century)