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Barbara Ehrenreich

American Writer

Born: Aug 26, 1941

About Me People Think World You

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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars. Barbara Ehrenreich

Time Black Cruelty Stars Black Holes About Talking Becoming Lot Up Hitting Going Just Holes Planets Whole Species Extinct

America is addicted to wars of distraction. Barbara Ehrenreich

Addicted Distraction America Wars

Marriage is socialism among two people. Barbara Ehrenreich

Marriage Socialism People Among Two Two People

Someone has to stand up for wimps. Barbara Ehrenreich

Wimps Someone Up Stand Stand Up

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. Barbara Ehrenreich

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. Barbara Ehrenreich

You Crime Will Thieves Too Month Tempting Scene Individually Containing Obvious Rent Score Get Wallet Banker Janitor Bus Poor Might Flee Fare Mug Reasons Lucky Away

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich

History Natural Clever Favors Only Selection Operated Human Human History Natural Selection

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. Barbara Ehrenreich

Exercise Bulimia Version

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction. Barbara Ehrenreich

Business People Goals Employees Research Group Assurance Late Later Further Out Cost Percent Only Major Employment Reduction Continue Decade Form Loyal Who Companies Company Agreed Found Deserve Started

I'm not a nice person. Barbara Ehrenreich

Nice Person Nice Person

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. Barbara Ehrenreich

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. Barbara Ehrenreich

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. Barbara Ehrenreich

Happy Husband Nice Would Would-Be Find See Catalogue Hour Than Any Romantic Bar Personally Average Less Why Downtown

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? Barbara Ehrenreich

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Barbara Ehrenreich

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Barbara Ehrenreich

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. Barbara Ehrenreich

Problems Build Military Logistical Had Knows Occupations Up Anyone Staggering Ground Who Village Ever Pose Set

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals. Barbara Ehrenreich

Work You Business Resume Post Simple Internet Job College Enough Way Jobs Would Find Seem Rational Could Supposed Make Educated Managers Experienced Them Your Companies Whole Search Searching Professionals

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. Barbara Ehrenreich

Great Religion Me Circle Church Thought Christianity Danced Dancing Once Evidence Some Seems Leaders Spoke Come Perhaps Altar Around Real Surprise Been Might Across Certainly Early

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. Barbara Ehrenreich

People Intervention Hierarchy Religious Directly Without Access Whenever Much Need

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. Barbara Ehrenreich

Joy Collective Think Back Say Evolutionary Thousands Thousands Of Years Tend Generating Go Years Tragic Human Human Capacity Which Capacity Use Appears Techniques Hardwired Biologists

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. Barbara Ehrenreich

Myself Matter Live Well Want Either Century Certainly

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. Barbara Ehrenreich

Cause Debts America Bankruptcy Medical

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating. Barbara Ehrenreich

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