Standing Corkscrew

Famous quotes containing the words standing and/or corkscrew:

“Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false impossible shore.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“An accurate charting of the American woman’s progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time—but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.”
—Susan Faludi (20th century)