Quotables

‘She was in a hippity-hoppity mood.’

Korea analyst Robert Kelly on his 4-year-old daughter Marion’s swagger as she entered the room and stood next to Kelly while he was appearing on BBC television during an interview. His 8-month-old son James then entered the room as well, before Kelly’s wife Kim Jung-A quickly shepherded them out of the room. Video of the “comedy of errors” went viral.

‘Pornography is sex-negative.’

Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, on a first-of-its-kind meta-analysis of 50 studies that found “pornography consumption was associated with lower interpersonal satisfaction outcomes in cross-sectional surveys, longitudinal surveys, and experiments.”

‘At the end of the day, math trumps the statutes.’

Thomas Nyhan, executive director and general counsel of the Central States Pension Fund, on the “pension tsunami” facing municipal, state, and other defined benefit pension plans in the United States.

‘Women birth half the population and we are half the population!’

Nelini Stamp of the Working Families Party in a March 8 tweet marking the “Day Without a Woman” protest. Many Twitter responders asked where Stamp learned biology.

‘It was like nobody knew right from wrong, and there was nobody trying to show anybody right from wrong.’

Ellen Contaldi, a former Sterling Jewelers manager, in newly published documents that were part of a class-action arbitration case against the company where about 250 employees alleged a widespread culture of sexual harassment.