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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich
American Writer
Born: Aug 26, 1941
About Me People Think World You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. Barbara Ehrenreich
Class Poverty Think Chronic About Both Long-Term Category Likes Mobility America Same Middle Middle Class Downward Things
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible. Barbara Ehrenreich
You Bible Reading Enough Saving Only Know Read Material Imprisoned Get Ever
I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring. Barbara Ehrenreich
Religion Atheist Seen Boring About Attack Redeeming Get Want Much Socially Here Raised
It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work. Barbara Ehrenreich
Work You Respect Big Down Everybody Never Look Principle Very Upbringing Anybody Should Street
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. Barbara Ehrenreich
Great Losing Job Divorce Psychological Trauma
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense. Barbara Ehrenreich
You Personality Job Employees Philosophy Top Kind Wrong Wrong Kind Nonsense Test Were Been Tests Behind Want Fortune Companies Exposed
When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting. Barbara Ehrenreich
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover. Barbara Ehrenreich
Cancer Pretty Recover Sure Going Being Breast Cancer Treated
My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.' Barbara Ehrenreich
God Strong Parents Atheists Never Answer Got Were
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience. Barbara Ehrenreich
Science Animal Culture Experience Feeling Other Consistently Critique Something Only Arguing Am Years Denied Existence Than Human Acknowledgement Consciousness Last
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons. Barbara Ehrenreich
Home Book People Interior Sit Few Books Unread Take Glance Over Know Around Boxes Am Prisons Ambitious Donate Just Wants Pack Them Decorating Really Element Thing Serving Last
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