Mantis Challenge

Famous quotes containing the words mantis and/or challenge:

“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.”
—Chinese proverb.

“...Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)