Optimism/health

Famous quotes containing the words optimism and/or health:

“Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.”
—Robert Hewison (b. 1943)

“Woman ... cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)