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Vote: | A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person. |
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Vote: | America is addicted to wars of distraction. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. |
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Vote: | From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. |
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Vote: | 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). |
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Vote: | 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! |
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Vote: | In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. |
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Vote: | It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. |
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Vote: | No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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? |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals. |
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Vote: | We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. |
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Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is a social critic and essayist. Her book Nickel and Dimed (2002) was a national bestseller in the United States. She is a prolific journalist who peppers her writing with a sardonic sense of humor.
Ehrenreich attended Reed College, and later obtained a PhD in biology from The Rockefeller University in New York City. She eventually decided not to become a research scientist, however. She became involved in politics as an activist for social change.
From 1991 to 1997, she was a regular columnist of Time. Currently, Ehrenreich is regular columnist with The Progressive.
Ehrenreich has also written for the New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, Salon.com and other publications. In 2004, she wrote a guest column for one month for the New York Times while regular columnist Thomas Friedman was on leave writing a book.
She is the vice chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and said on PBS NewsHour that the fact that married women voted more for George W. Bush in 2004 is evidence that "women continue to have less authority or influence within a marriage [and] tend to be economically worn down [people who] accept the views of the male."
Books
Non-fiction
* Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (with Diedre English) (1973)
* The Hearts of Men (1987)
* Re-Making Love (with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs) (1987)
* Fear of Falling (1989)
* For Her Own Good (with Diedre English) (1989)
* Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (with Diedre English) (1991)
* The Mean Season (with Fred Block, Richard A. Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven) (1987)
* The Worst Years of Our Lives (1990)
* Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1991)
* The Snarling Citizen (1995)
* Nickel and Dimed (2002)
* Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (with Arlie Hochschild and Arlie Russell Hochschild) (2003) ISBN 0805075097
Fiction
* Kippers Game (1994)
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