Famous quotes containing the words modern, western and/or logic:
“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices—against half the human race—that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.”
—Eva Figes (b. 1932)