Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.
Jane SmileyBut what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
Jane SmileyThe thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
Jane SmileyThere are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
Jane SmileyOne of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
Jane Smiley