“In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants
“It’s like being a duck. Calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddling like hell underneath.”
― Secrets of Six-Figure Women
― Secrets of Six-Figure Women
“We all have wanted, at one time or another, to appear as an idealized self. "I'm actually a quite different person," as the playwright Ödön von Horváth wrote, "I just never get around to being him.”
― You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
― You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
“He simply believed that lame sex destroyed more marriages than did anything else, and that “considering the inveterate marriage habit of the race,” something ought to be done.”
― Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
― Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
“If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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