Passive Virtues

Famous quotes containing the words passive and/or virtues:

“It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men’s attitude toward women and women’s passive acceptance of this attitude.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)