All Quotable

Dick Simpson

February 5, 2013

Murder capital

“Chicago has become the murder capital.”

Barbara Risman

January 29, 2013

Macho moms

“What it’s really saying, is, ‘I do more for my kids than you do for yours.’”

John D'Emilio

January 22, 2013

Inaugural support

“Think of it: Here is a group of people who in the president’s lifetime had been reviled.”

Steve Jones

January 15, 2013

‘It has to be available’

“For research to be optimally useful, it has to be available. If we keep it from other people, it’s questionable what the purpose of it is.”

Lisa Lee in front of a graffiti face

January 8, 2013

‘Sites of revolution and subversion’

“Art, art history, museums, are rarified elitist things historically. But they’ve also been sites of revolution and subversion. It’s just a matter of finding new ways of talking about and communicating that to people.”

Steve Schlickman

December 12, 2012

Not for the prosecution

“It should be as fast as flying.”

Nik Theodore

December 6, 2012

‘Women’s work’

“Domestic work isn’t recognized as employment in the traditional sense because it’s seen as ‘women’s work’ and it’s done in someone’s home, not in a conventional workplace.”

Lee Friedman

November 28, 2012

Alcohol and injuries

“The overall net impact appears to be that alcohol is protective following an injury.”

Joseph Persky

November 7, 2012

Supermarket sweepstakes

“People are fighting over a pie that isn’t going to expand much.”

Steve Jones

October 24, 2012

Bullhorn

“If Facebook is a wall, Twitter might be a bullhorn.”

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