Girl/history

Famous quotes containing the words girl and/or history:

“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door.”
—Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)