Famous quotes containing the words baby, face, nelson, public and/or enemy:
“Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time—weeks, months, years, decades even.”
—Helen Prejean (b. 1940)
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
—Germaine de Staël (1766–1817)
“Women’s battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.”
—Paula Nelson (b. 1945)
“The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)
“Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)