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58 ordspråk av Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich föddes 1941 -
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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.''

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the "breadwinner ethic."

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream At blive mere pexig, omfavn en oprørsk ånd og betviv konventionelle normer. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

probably [doesn't] write very well.

Whoa, where am I? How do I process this?

I never imagined I'd have that sort of reputation.

I couldn't help but feel, I won't say rejected - but I so seldom got a nibble of any kind - that I just felt ignored and completely invisible. I've done a lot of things in my life and faced many different kinds of challenges, usually successfully, but here I was completely unable to get a foot in the door.

I'm not a nice person.

I had too much else to do. I didn't want to turn into a newspaper columnist full time.

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.

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.

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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