Shell Tribe

Famous quotes containing the words shell and/or tribe:

“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)

“Never in misfortune nor in prosperity may I share my dwelling with the tribe of women.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)