Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is… — 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
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — 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
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
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything… — 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
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to… — 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
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
