Liza Mundy quotes

“Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.”
-- Liza Mundy

Source : Liza Mundy (2009). “Michelle: A Biography”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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“Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?”
-- Liza Mundy

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“Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity... So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.”
-- Liza Mundy

Source : "Why Men Are Attracted to High-Earning Women" by Liza Mundy, ideas.time.com. March 15, 2012.

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“While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.”
-- Liza Mundy

Source : "PROFESSIONAL WINGMAN: Here's How To Date Women Who Earn More Than You" by Mandi Woodruff, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2012.

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“Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.”
-- Liza Mundy

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“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”
-- Liza Mundy

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“What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.”

Source : A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive

“Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.”

Source : "Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas". August 09, 2012.

“REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.”

“Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.”

“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

“Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

“People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.”

Source : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.

“We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.”

“Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.”