Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 194.
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. xx-xxi.
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 28.
“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. xvii.
Context: Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 215.
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 16.
Context: Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. … If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
"Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book", http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-10-28/news/9810280139_1_reading-eskimo-woman-places Chicago Tribune, 28 October 1998; reprinted in The Best of Mary Schmich (2012) as "A Discount Ticket to Everywhere".
“Poverty puts crime at a discount.”
La pauvreté met le crime au rabais.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312
Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).
