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.
BARBARA EHRENREICHI 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.
More Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
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Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids — without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
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It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.
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Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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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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Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there’s been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it’s a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
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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 production – only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
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The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.
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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 public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs
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The ‘working poor,’ as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
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The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
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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 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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I’m not a nice person.
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The secret of the truly successful … is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.
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Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.
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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.
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