Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. W...

You can talk about depression as a "chemical imbalance" all you want, but it presents itself as an e...

A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is n...

I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...

The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowle...

That's what "meaning" is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid ...

My religious friends - and my friends were almost all Catholics or Protestants or occasionally somet...

The conventional term is "mystical experience," meaning something that by its very nature lies beyon...

In my experience, any class or assembly restricted to girls was going to be in some way degrading, l...

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher...

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without h...

Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing ...

Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie ...

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is th...

What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life? It might be a...

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as t...

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in lov...

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mi...

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal sh...

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for ex...

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almo...

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should ...

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists po...

In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker ...

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some ...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly...

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

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggest...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around ...

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, ...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color cat...

According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in ...

In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommen...

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make ...

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or...

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city crime is taken as...

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relen...

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and ...

Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, an...

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and ...

But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pione...

Most accounts of mystical experiences... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "livin...

In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids ...

Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in t...

The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should...

The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was...