Brood Parasitism

Famous quotes containing the words brood and/or parasitism:

“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“[Woman’s] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)