"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Bill,

In view of the importance of the quotation, a very notable find!

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"              (UNCLASSIFIED)

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Fred Shapiro's Freakonomics column in the NYT of 12 Aug 2010 has the
subject quote from _People_ magazine, 26 July 1976 as quoted in the YBQ.

Slightly earlier:

_Seattle Times_ 5 Jun 1976 p A7 col 2
"Sign seen in a (feminist?) dress shop in Seattle, Wash.:  "A woman
without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." "

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