Barbara Ehrenreich quote: "If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good."

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite app...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you mig...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You coul...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breas...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of inter...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment y...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

America is addicted to wars of distraction
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminis...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who w...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Someone has to stand up for wimps.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, o...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landsca...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child wi...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

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

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical m...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger pe...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacri...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they a...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without g...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-sh...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for th...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love televisi...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a gr...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the n...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocu...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harasse...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would s...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can s...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. Aft...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figur...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia
BARBARA EHRENREICH

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Gre...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the exi...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. Th...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the e...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

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

America is addicted to wars of distraction.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encoura...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-grea...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar sit...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, yo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America a...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

How hard can this be? If I go out there with a good résumé - which I created - looking for a PR jo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

I couldn't help but feel, I won't say rejected - but I so seldom got a nibble of any kind - that I j...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers br...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, fo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in P...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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

In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to i...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their ha...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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?
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.&...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to hav...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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...
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...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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 ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I'm not a nice person.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

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...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a g...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genr...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intui...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I had a meeting with the producer of 'Five Easy Pieces,' which is my favorite movie. He intr...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especi...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt w...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
ALDEN EHRENREICH

It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impa...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a g...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff li...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

Something that is appealing to me about old Hollywood is job security.
ALDEN EHRENREICH

No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I made short films in school.
ALDEN EHRENREICH

My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Bro...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serio...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always k...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't wan...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS

I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

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