"The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed,……" — Barbara Ehrenreich
"The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society."
—
Barbara Ehrenreich
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich has 117 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be…
-
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already…
-
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the…
-
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as…
-
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is…
-
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
-
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great…
-
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees…
-
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and…
-
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on…
-
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television…
-
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they…
See all 117 quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich »
More Approvingly Quotes
This quote is filed under Approvingly Quotes,
one of 8 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton,"…
— Kenneth Grahame
-
As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill…
— Abraham Lincoln
-
The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say,…
— Dave Eggers
-
Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.” “You have read this?” Alexei asked. “It’s not as…
— Julia Quinn
-
Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet,…
— John Flanagan
-
You dress to impress," I said approvingly. "No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing my ear. "I undress…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
-
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek…
— Elihu Root
See all 8 Approvingly Quotes »