I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that's the ideal guy when you're 13, by the time you're 25, you're going to have had some seriously bad relationships.


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Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, fo...
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Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, o...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by ...
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What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're ...
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In my experience, any class or assembly restricted to girls was going to be in some way degrading, l...
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There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
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Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in P...
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In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker ...
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In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to t...
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
We (the left) have to be used to being a minority—a small minority—for some time to come. The od...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thr...
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to i...
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their ha...
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This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
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But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal sh...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that expe...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we he...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on myst...
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When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.&...
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I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? An...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my d...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to hav...
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, an...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a da...
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks vo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature...
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do ...
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I'm not a nice person.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a fem...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The stree...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get impriso...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that...
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