[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Source: Understanding Women, Ch. 6, 1931.
-- Mary Ritter Beard, (Aug 5 1876-1958), US historian, writer; She championed women's causes and labor movements in Woman as a Force in History, 1946.