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Barbara Ehrenreich has 120 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
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To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
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Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
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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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The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
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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 female sexuality,…
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…
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What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the…
— Paul of the Cross
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee…
— Louise Brealey
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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
— William Butler Yeats
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Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women…
— Gustave Flaubert
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There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed,…
— B. C. Forbes
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The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because…
— Iain Pears
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One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be…
— Milan Kundera
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