147 Quotes by Virginia Postrel

Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.