All Quotable

April 9, 2013

History lives on

“I always thought it would be wonderful in the afterlife if you could listen to them debate.”

April 2, 2013

Right to marry

“The right to marry is very different from creating a society where people feel pressured to marry.”

Lennard Davis

March 26, 2013

Obsessions

“We’re using this powerful word, but lowering the standard by having everybody be obsessed by everything.”

Peter Doran (from left), Christian Fritsen and Jay Kyne

March 19, 2013

‘Don’t trust anything you read’

“I tell my students, don’t trust anything you read in the popular press.”

Stephen Schlickman

March 12, 2013

When O’Hare coughs

“When O’Hare coughs, the rest of the system gets a cold, so it has a major national and federal interest.”

Barbara Risman

March 5, 2013

Pink and blue

“Children have learned when something is pink, it is only for girls.”

Beth Richie

February 28, 2013

Complicated thing

“It’s not just a problem of the law.”

February 26, 2013

Spidey sense

“We humans have the senses that we are born with and we can’t extend them.”

February 19, 2013

Violence and children

“The problem of children’s exposure to violence needs to be treated as the public health epidemic that it is.”

Jay Olshansky

February 12, 2013

No smoking

“When you ban smoking in public places, you’re protecting everyone’s health.”

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