“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
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Category: movies
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“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
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Category: mom
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“Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: medical
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“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
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Category: fear
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“At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: family
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“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: history
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“At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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“Marriage is socialism among two people.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: marriage
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“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
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Category: happiness
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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
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Category: freedom
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“It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Category: religion
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