Flour/composition

Famous quotes containing the words flour and/or composition:

“I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age
In th’actes and in fruit of mariage.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)