Ruling Elders

Famous quotes containing the words ruling and/or elders:

    Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.
    Diana Trilling (b. 1905)

    ...I am who I am because I’m a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it—only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.
    —Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)