Home
Authors
Topics
Quote Of The Day
Pictures Only
Find Local Places
Contact & More
About
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Terms Of Service
Copiright
Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
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.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
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.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
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.
Written by
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.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
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?
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Marriage is socialism among two people.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm not a nice person.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
Written by
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.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
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.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
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.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
Written by
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.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
Written by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Older Entries ›
9quotes Menu
Home
Authors
Topics
Quote Of The Day
Pictures Only
Contact & Legal
▼
About
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Terms Of Service
Copiright
Join our feeds to automatically receive the latest headlines, news, and information formatted for your club's website or news reader.
Social connect:
Login
Login with facebook
Login
Login with twitter