Children Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

11 Children quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Ehrenreich’s incisive social commentary turns toward the youngest members of society in this compact collection. The quotes blend wit and critique, offering a quick but thought‑provoking look at how children fit into larger cultural narratives.

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while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the…

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Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a…

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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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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…

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When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is…

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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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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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When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved…

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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major…

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Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public…

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“When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where despite the recent proliferation…

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“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper…

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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.

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Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…

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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…

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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 the Old…

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