In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what… — 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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