Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes:- Barbara Ehrenreich (August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books.
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“Marriage is socialism among two people.”
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“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
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“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.”
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“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”
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“There’s more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.”
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“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.”
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“Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.”
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“Personally, I can’t see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalog than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.”
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“I’m not a nice person.”
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“Someone has to stand up for wimps.”
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“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.”
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“Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.”
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“So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.”
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“Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don’t need to have hierarchy so much.”
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“Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.”
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“People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don’t expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don’t want them to exercise that power if they were to have it.”
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“Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an ‘ethic.'”
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“I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.”
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“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.”
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“That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.”
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“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?”
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“We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”
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“In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“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.”
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“No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.”
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“If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people’s, then that must feel pretty good.”
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“Well, I certainly wouldn’t want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.”
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“When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.”
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“I’m obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.”
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“The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They’re the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.”
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“I’m interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there’s not a lot known about that.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.”
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“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.”
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“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“For a long time on Earth, humans didn’t worship good gods; that’s a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.”
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“We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.”
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“Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.”
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“That’s the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.”
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“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.”
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“Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.”
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“Experimental science is fascinating, but I don’t want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I’ll read about it.”
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“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
“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.”
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“The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.”
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“In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.”
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