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Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
«A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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advanced, also known as, apple, enterprise, for each one, free enterprise, Free market, known as, look into, markets, mathematical, mood, moods, One of Us, pinstripe, pinstripes, retail, retailing, specifically, sullen, The Boys, the market
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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anti, assumption, encourages, feminist, feminist movement, pornography, sexuality, unlike, yang, yin
«Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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decorate, decorated, decorating, developing, developing countries, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, food supply, for example, for that matter, import, imported, imports, Interior, in relation to, local, of import, relation to, scheme, supply
«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better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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campus, campuses, contemporary, harass, harassed, harasses, manuscripts, midwestern, mousetrap, remote, The Contemporary, undergo, unpublished
«I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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across the country, card, Christmas Card, deletion, dozens, fashioned, knowingly, lists, moral principle, old country, Old Course, old fashioned, pedestrian, pedestrians, speed up, stern, venereal, venereal disease
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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boob, boobs, bun, buns, come across, Dallas, for example, middle ages, monkish, or so, periodical, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, rape, related, Romans, screening, types
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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Adolf, Adolf Hitler, heads of state, Ho Chi Minh, landscape, notoriously, Ronald, seaman, seamen
«We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.»
«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.''»
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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alarming, feminist, liberation, nasty, outcomes, point of view, predicted, suggestion