Hair

Hair

Hair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.

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Famous quotes containing the word hair:

    “Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And
    Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.
    It is just that so often they live till their hair is white.
    They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers. . . .”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “As long as the “woman’s work” that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman’s work, as long as it’s tacked onto a “regular” work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain.”
    —Arlie Hochschild (20th century)

    “Pan came out of the woods one day
    His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)