"Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money."
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Top & Most Famous Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
"When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation."
"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."
"The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease."
"We spend so much time scrambling from one thing to the next, getting through it, getting to the end, and starting over again, that I would not forget to fully breathe in the miniscule moments of beauty and peace."
"The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all."
"A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness."
"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."
"You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it. Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us."
"Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves."
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