Term Eskimo

Famous quotes containing the words term and/or eskimo:

    “Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “We all have bad days, of course, a secret that only makes us feel more guilty. But once my friends and I started telling the truth about how far we deviated from perfection, we couldn’t stop. . . . One mother admitted leaving the grocery store without her kids—”I just forgot them. The manager found them in the frozen foods aisle, eating Eskimo Pies.””
    —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)