Marilyn Johnson Quote

The convention that there were two sides to every story eliminated the third and fourth and fifth sides. Even dividing the past two and a half million years into the Neolithic (the new stone age) and the Paleolithic (the old stone age) was reductionist. Write this down, he said. Dichotomies are for idiots.

Marilyn Johnson

The convention that there were two sides to every story eliminated the third and fourth and fifth sides. Even dividing the past two and a half million years into the Neolithic (the new stone age) and the Paleolithic (the old stone age) was reductionist. Write this down, he said. Dichotomies are for idiots.

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About Marilyn Johnson

Marilyn Kinsman Johnson (February 18, 1928 – October 31, 2007) was an American bridge player from Houston, Texas. She won three world championships, one at women pairs and two at women teams, all in partnership with Mary Jane Farell. Farell and Johnson also won the North American von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs in 1978, which no other pair of women has done (1930 to 2014).
Johnson, a native of Rutland, Vermont, majored in chemistry at Wellesley College and worked 33 years for Shell Oil. She died in Houston, aged 79.