The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

-Greer, Germaine
  Of the mother's subjugation to her family's demands. The Female Eunuch,'Love: Family'.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

-Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron
  Quoted in Time, 3  Jul.