Provincial Parties

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or parties:

“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

“Remorse—is Memory—awake—
Her Parties all astir—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)