Peculiar Practice

Famous quotes containing the words peculiar and/or practice:

“Education is considered the peculiar business of women; perhaps for that very reason it is one of the worst-paid businesses in the world ...”
—Katharine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)

“She, too, would now swim down the river of matrimony with a beautiful name, and a handle to it, as the owner of a fine family property. Women’s rights was an excellent doctrine to preach, but for practice could not stand the strain of such temptation.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)