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
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
in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards. — 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
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
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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 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]? It might… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
