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«Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the men's room whenever an important illegal decision was made»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| About:
Decision,
Management,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, George Bush, illegal, managed, President George Bush, The Vice, vice president
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
bar, catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, downtown, happy hour, personally, romantic
«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?»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
common language, foreign language, foreign languages, languages, make fun, speakers
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
brash, feminists, ladder, lousy, motherhood, nonexistent, pedestal, pedestals, pointed
«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.»
«No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
activities, assigning, deploy, deployed, farming, full time, gathering, maintenance, one-woman, One on One, PER, productive, raising, simultaneously, suburban, temple, tent, weaving
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
bumper, bumpers, bumper sticker, dealer, dealers, employment, frenzy, innocuous, shooting, sticker, stopping, tests, urine
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
associated, disabilities, disability, disable, disabled, get on, get on with, inexperience, mousse, salmon, stunt, stunted, stunting, temporarily, the disabled, version
«The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
«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.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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