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“Adam Smith got his dinner because his mother made sure it was on the table every evening.”
― Katrine Kielos, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics

“According to the economic models, she’s unproductive, not working, economically inactive.”
― Katrine Kielos, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics

“On the other hand, had Obama refused to permit Trump’s inauguration, on the grounds that he was still occupying the White House, or that he was planning to install Clinton there, then democracy in America would have been done for, at least for now.”
― David Runciman, How Democracy Ends

“His penchant led him to a lifetime of visiting prostitutes because he felt, for obvious reasons, that he could not share such a desire with the women he met in his personal life. And this really is one of the cornerstones that support the sex industry—the male insistence on offloading onto another class of women perversions they cannot reasonably expect to present to the women in their lives. Here, women are very distinctly divided into the respectable and the contemptible, the decent and the disreputable, the revered and the reviled.”
― Rachel Moran, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

“Cheap, swift, easy means of communication, the establishment of peace and order over land and sea, the ever-growing inter-dependence of all men and all countries upon one another, have given wings to Asiatic commercial ambition”
― Winston S. Churchill, My African Journey