My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — 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… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never… — 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
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only… — 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
The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're… — 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
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
“You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which [they] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share
