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.

Ehrenreich has two children. She divorced Stevenson in 1993. In 1983 Barbara Ehrenreich married Gary Stevenson a union organizer for the Teamsters.

She is a widely-read and award-winning columnist and essayist and author of 21 books. During the 1980s and early 1990s Barbara Ehrenreich was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. Barbara Ehrenreich (pron.