Famous quotes containing the words lets and/or slip:
“The wall-door under the chestnut-tree
that I nor anyone else ever saw open,
opens and lets out a carpenter:
he has his chisel,
I have my pencil.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Woman was originally the inventor, the manufacturer, the provider. She has allowed one office after another gradually to slip from her hand, until she retains, with loose grasp, only the so-called housekeeping.... Having thus given up one by one the occupations which required knowledge of materials and processes, and skill in using them ... she rightly feels that what’s left is mere deadening drudgery.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)