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

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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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.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Attitude Attribute Better Effort Entirely Essence Feel Good Mental Must Other Own People Pretty Pretty Good Some Spiritual Success Than Then You Your

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Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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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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Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 26th, 1941

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