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Barbara Ehrenreich

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.
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Children Friendly Live Our
Money does not bring happiness’ – only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.
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Absence Endure Happiness Money
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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Fun Language Purpose Speaker
our great common challenge … is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems, our government and, I would add, also our sporting events. I would really like to see some separation of church and stadium, if we could work on that.
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Government Law School
I think it’s tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
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Biological Joy Say Thinking Years
The ‘working poor,’ as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
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Facts Our Poor Society
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
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Bracing Cappuccino Impossible Little
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
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Men Narcissistic Results
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.
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Cards Men Play
if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.
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Bible Cells Gay
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy’s-or excuse me, woman’s-point of view.
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Guy Tolerance Views
An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not – and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it’s microbes. They’re the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.
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Asteroids May Successful
For a long time on Earth humans didn’t worship good gods; that’s a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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Ideas Long Powerful
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
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Feminism Needs Women
The urge to transform one’s appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.” –Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.
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Dancing Perfect Powerful
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Blue Father Montana

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