Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
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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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
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Being present with a person and just seeing them for who they are is something that is so rarely given to us, and I try to do that with everyone I meet.
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I've always wanted to go on 'The View!'
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I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.
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My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.
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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.
