Downward Departure

Famous quotes containing the words downward and/or departure:

“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

“Some departure from the norm
Will occur as time grows more open about it.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)