Top 75 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

About Barbara Ehrenreich

These are some quotes by American author Barbara Ehrenreich Writer, who was born on August 26, 1941.

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

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

Barbara Ehrenreich

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

Barbara Ehrenreich

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.

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.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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