Famous quotes containing the words evanescent and/or field:
“The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterflys bloom.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a mans field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.”
—Eugenie Clark (b. 1922)
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