“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
“Feel the Fear. Have the Doubts. Go for It Anyway.”
― Secrets of Six-Figure Women
― Secrets of Six-Figure Women
“In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants
“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
“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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