“ My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be. Maureen Corrigan
“ Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse. Maureen Corrigan
“ Social class. Class remains our national awkward topic, usually mumbled over in academic diversity workshops; indeed, most people don't know how to talk about class without automatically coupling it w… Maureen Corrigan
“ Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. Maureen Corrigan
“ I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bo… Maureen Corrigan
“ Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores. Maureen Corrigan
“ One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack. Maureen Corrigan
“ Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it. Maureen Corrigan
“ Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class. Maureen Corrigan
“ Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the l… Maureen Corrigan
“ Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me. Maureen Corrigan
“ Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us. Maureen Corrigan
“ Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in. Maureen Corrigan
“ It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame. Maureen Corrigan
“ My own mother, who's always dazzled by my faculty and answering questions in the literature a category on Jeopardy whenever we watch it together, keeps urging me to try to get on the show to make all… Maureen Corrigan
“ I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers. Maureen Corrigan
“ The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're "decoding Maureen Corrigan
“ It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. Maureen Corrigan
