Carry Status

Famous quotes containing the words carry and/or status:

    “we carry home as prizes
    Funny bugs, of handy sizes,
    Just to give the day a scientific tone.”
    —Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    “Knowing how beleaguered working mothers truly are—knowing because I am one of them—I am still amazed at how one need only say “I work” to be forgiven all expectation, to be assigned almost a handicapped status that no decent human being would burden further with demands. “I work” has become the universally accepted excuse, invoked as an all-purpose explanation for bowing out, not participating, letting others down, or otherwise behaving inexcusably.”
    —Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)