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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

There’s more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
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Perky Pressure
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
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Career Pain Thinking
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
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Fashion Halfhearted Many Other Possible Truth
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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Circles Dancing Real
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
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Character Motivation Poverty
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
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Heart Love People
What you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you’re really selling is your life.
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Hour Realizing Selling
James Bond in his Sean Connery days … was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.
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Degenerates Firsts Known Well
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
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Alcohol Drug Views
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.
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Leader Motherhood Work
Feminists have not tried to “destroy the family”. We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.
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Feminist Ideas Men
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Country Debt Medical Number
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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Exercise Fitness Health
I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don’t understand how she can go so long without food. “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
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Complaining Long Smoking
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Energetic Happiness Test Upbeat
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an ‘ethic.’
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Ethics Thinking Work

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.

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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.

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