Pig Quotes



He was a major critic of French Quebec Separatism and some elements of French Canadian culture including his perception of sexism. His French Quebec Separatist enemies translated passages of this work into French and (some say deliberately) mistranslated this line to read: Quebec women are sows. The quotation was bandied about Canada in the original version as well as the mistranslation.


Other brokers were very distressed with this ad feeling that Schwab was appearing to be “holier than thou.” The reality was that Schwab’s firm didn’t make the kinds of deals of other brokers and so actually behaved “holier” than most.