Prison Sentence

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or sentence:

    This great purple butterfly,
    In the prison of my hands,
    Has a learning in his eye
    Not a poor fool understands.
    Once he lived a schoolmaster
    With a stark, denying look....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
    Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)