Tarantula/appendages

Famous quotes containing the words tarantula and/or appendages:

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

“... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage—only for appendages and dead weights to husbands—of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves—is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)