Cherokee/culture/marriage

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee, culture and/or marriage:

    “A Cherokee is too smart to put anything in the contribution box of a race that’s robbed him of his birthright.”
    —Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)

    “... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
    —Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

    “Our home has been nothing but a play-room. I’ve been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa’s doll-child. And the children have been my dolls in their turn. I liked it when you came and played with me, just as they liked it when I came and played with them. That’s what our marriage has been, Torvald.”
    —Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)