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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Any Associations Attached Bit Could Episodes Even Had Interesting Just Little Little Bit Lot Might Pathological People See Spooky Thought Where Without Words World

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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 26th, 1941

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