When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of… — 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
When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some… — 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
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Consider the standard two-person married couple. ... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do… — 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
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