Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes.

1. "Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men."
- Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

2. "No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."
- Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

3. "I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican."
- Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

4. "In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him."
- Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

5. "Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money."
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6. "The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society."
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7. "When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist."
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8. "You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man."
- Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

9. "The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived."
- Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

10. "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."
- Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich