Famous quotes containing the words convent, high and/or school:
“Come, all sad and solemn shows,
That are quick-eyed Pleasures foes!
We convent nought else but woes,
We convent nought else but woes.”
—John Fletcher (15791625)
“...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of ourselves may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (18661948)
“A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.”
—Barbra Streisand (b. 1942)