Famous quotes containing the words long and/or skirts:
“If it was not wise,
Tell me why the East
Seemingly has ceased
From its long stagnation
In mere meditation.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman’s intelligent companionship.”
—Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960)