Privately Owned Enterprise

Famous quotes containing the words privately, owned and/or enterprise:

    “Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it.”
    —Victoria Billings (b. 1945)

    “White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    “In enterprise of martial kind,
    When there was any fighting,
    He led his regiment from behind—
    He found it less exciting.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)