Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

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• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

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• The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

  

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• Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.

  

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• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

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• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

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• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

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• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

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• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

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• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  

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• If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

  

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• I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

  

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• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

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• I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.

  

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• Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

  

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• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

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• Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

  

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• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

  

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• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Think
  • Just