As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans--who were not allowed to learn to read and… — 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
