Master Pain

Famous quotes containing the words master and/or pain:

“To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)

“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman—a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)