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Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I had discovered that writing
with whatever instrument
was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich

We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over. — Barbara Ehrenreich

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Someone has to stand up for wimps. — Barbara Ehrenreich

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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

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

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.' — Barbara Ehrenreich

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four. — Diane Sawyer

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I believe nothing. Belief is intellectual surrender; "faith" a state of willed self-delusion. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals." — Barbara Ehrenreich

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky. — Barbara Ehrenreich

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

America is addicted to wars of distraction. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifference to what is urgently important to others. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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

Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is? — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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

In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits. — Barbara Ehrenreich

To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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

Marriage is socialism among two people. — Barbara Ehrenreich

No job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm not a nice person. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. — Barbara Ehrenreich