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“In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants
“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
“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
Jackie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jackie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
502 books
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116 friends
315 books
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188 books
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14 friends
1,932 books
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334 books
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2,527 friends
806 books
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422 friends
135 books
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19 friends
411 books
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110 friends
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