Altered Dominant Scale

Famous quotes containing the words altered, dominant and/or scale:

“The generation of women before us who rushed to fill the corporate ranks altered our expectations of what working motherhood could be, tempered our ambition, and exploded the supermom myth many of us held dear.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)

“A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)