Famous quotes containing the words mortal and/or counterpart:
“A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)