“Feel the Fear. Have the Doubts. Go for It Anyway.”
― Secrets of Six-Figure Women
― Secrets of Six-Figure Women
“After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“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
“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
“In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants
Jackie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jackie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Jackie
Lists liked by Jackie

































