Special Guest Voice

Famous quotes containing the words special, guest and/or voice:

    “Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as the special responsibility of mothers ... any shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.”
    —Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)

    “When mother’s relatives visited,
    delicacies were cooked.
    When father’s guest arrrived,
    mother swelled and had a fit.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    “That woman’s days were spent
    In ignorant good-will,
    Her nights in argument
    Until her voice grew shrill.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)