Barbara Ehrenreich

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#about #ago #brash #career #century

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#any #average #bar #catalogue #downtown

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." ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#appropriate #else #ethic #happen #i

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#energetic #even #fairly #happiness #i

Someone has to stand up for wimps. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#stand #stand up #up #wimps

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blue #blue eyes #dan #dan quayle #eyes

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

#been #cost #i #kids #like

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#come #common #fear #foreign #foreign languages

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#perky #pressure #women