Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Patriotism, True, Matter

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Love, Family, Best

Marriage is socialism among two people.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Marriage, Two, Socialism

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Mom, Career, Thought

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Someone, Away, Idea

I'm not a nice person.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Women, Book, Understand

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich

History, Human, Natural

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Life, Freedom, Nothing

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Women, Men, Become

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Negative, Become, Minds

America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich

America, Wars, Addicted

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Barbara Ehrenreich

America, Same, Poverty

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Exercise, Bulimia, Version

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Medical, America, Cause

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Money, Chance, Getting

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Happiness, Person, Though

Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Someone, Stand, Wimps

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Women, Pressure, Perky

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Love, Television, Exist

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Live, Matter, Either

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Father, Situation, Born

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Religious, Whenever, Hierarchy

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 prices.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Health, Yes, Pays

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 26, 1941

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