Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
BARBARA EHRENREICHThere seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere.
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To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born “illegals.”
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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.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that’s really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it’s very different. You’re out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn’t that fascinating.
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the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical ‘name it and claim it’ variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one’s immediate, self-identified needs.
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Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your ‘job.’ Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
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The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
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The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
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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 Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
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Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
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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.
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For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
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If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
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We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles…bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.
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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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