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Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Asset Away Company Developed Disposable Employee Employers Gone Idea Long-Term New Notion Nurtured Someone

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

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: All-Around Dissent Duty Matter Often Patriotism Patriots Rebellion Refuge Remain Too True

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

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Clever Favors History Human Human History Natural Natural Selection Only Operated Selection

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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Business College Companies Could Educated Enough Experienced Find Internet Job Jobs Make Managers Post Professionals Rational Resume Search Searching Seem Simple Supposed Them Way Whole Work Would You Your

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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Away Banker Bus Containing Crime Fare Flee Get Individually Janitor Lucky Might Month Mug Obvious Poor Reasons Rent Scene Score Tempting Thieves Too Wallet Will You

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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Becoming Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Community Couple Just King Know Leaders Like Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Millions Movement People Rights Rights Movement Risks Say Should Superstars Taking Taking Risks Thousands You

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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: About Celebration Crowd Ecstatic Group Joy Kind Little Lot Love Over People Ritual Scholarly Sex Some Spend Take Thinking Time Very

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Among Marriage People Socialism Two Two People

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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

Topics: About Career Century Ever Feminists Ladder Lousy Moral Motherhood Nobody Out Pay Pedestal Pointed Putting Some Take Thought Until

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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Acknowledgement Am Animal Arguing Consciousness Consistently Critique Culture Denied Existence Experience Feeling Human Last Only Other Science Something Than Years I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 26th, 1941

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