Pivotal/history

Famous quotes containing the words pivotal and/or history:

“Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.”
—Caroline Bird (b. 1915)

“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker’s body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers’ intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)