What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“you can't go around telling people, 'I'm on a mission to discover the purpose of life.' Not if you're hoping to prolong… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort.” — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]?… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life? It might be a good move to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is pure hell. I'll write something and look at it in a few hours and say, "This is crap. What… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
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… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
“You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which [they] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
![“What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen…” quote by Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/187/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_abandon_what-would-it-mean-in-practice-to-elimin_140275.png)
