Barbara Ehrenreich

Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress."…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three…

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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in…

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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,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands.…

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In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian…

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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging…

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The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which…

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By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages…

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One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance.…

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I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“...Maybe it's low-wage work in general that has the effect of making feel like a pariah. When I watch TV over my…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come.…

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The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some…

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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry…

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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as…

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“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

“I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting…

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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say…

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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I…

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you…

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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also,…

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“My aim here was much more straightforward and objective — just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the…

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I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women…

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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was…

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The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…

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The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in…

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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands…

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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…

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The money that fueled the explosion of gluttony at the top had to come from somewhere or, more specifically, from someone. Since…

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Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged…

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“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the…

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