"When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing……" — Virginia Postrel
"When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites."
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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future…
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have…
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