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| We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters! | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| There 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. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favours not only the clever but the murderous. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
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| Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-colour catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| 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. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Marriage is socialism among two people. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the ''breadwinner ethic.'' | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Someone has to stand up for wimps. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| 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 | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
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| In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| America is addicted to wars of distraction. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| 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 | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
