"Crime seems to change character when it crosses……" — Barbara Ehrenreich
"Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul."
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117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees…
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and…
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor…
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
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I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous…
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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge…
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Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever…
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My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.
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