Top 75 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

About Barbara Ehrenreich

These are some quotes by American author Barbara Ehrenreich Writer, who was born on August 26, 1941.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

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

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.

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.

Barbara Ehrenreich

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

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.

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

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich

When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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