Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: I had discovered that writingwith whatever instrumentwas a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: I had discovered that writingwith whatever instrumentwas a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1634474.jpg)
with whatever instrument
was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do.
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1893243.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-616430.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1417067.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1459756.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1437256.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: We are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: We are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1958298.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: War is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: War is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-2191756.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-598720.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-324074.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1624422.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1768159.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1021006.jpg)
![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 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1522823.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1710365.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: You can't go around telling people, 'I'm on a mission to discover the purpose of life.' Not if you're hoping to prolong the conversation. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: You can't go around telling people, 'I'm on a mission to discover the purpose of life.' Not if you're hoping to prolong the conversation.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1412809.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1926941.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1962654.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1993844.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1997578.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-2002275.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-2101151.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-2128639.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-2129801.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals." Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-2139691.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-2177017.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-973089.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-249203.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-460392.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-484723.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-540733.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-692469.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-764849.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-801209.jpg)
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: That's what "meaning" is - a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: That's what "meaning" is - a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-841396.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1513428.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1034320.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1148889.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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 Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1153268.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: 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 quotes: So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1197639.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1374219.jpg)
![Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn. Barbara Ehrenreich quotes: If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barbara-ehrenreich-quotes-1409307.jpg)