We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors.… — 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
“To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Science shapes the way I see the world at every moment. I see still, you know, my idea of a good time… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“We (the left) have to be used to being a minority—a small minority—for some time to come. The odd thing is that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your… — 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
It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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 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
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