Famous quotes containing the words shattered and/or chain:
“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman—a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
—William James (1842–1910)