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American Political figure

Barbara Ehrenreich is an American political figure born on August 26, 1941. She is known for her activities in labor movements, social justice, and gender equality.

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Famous Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

“we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.”

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Book:Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

“There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.”

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Book:FEAR OF FALLING

Source: FEAR OF FALLING

“Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that's when you get into selling the house.”

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“To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."”

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“A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America”

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“The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.”

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Book:FEAR OF FALLING

Source: FEAR OF FALLING

“Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.”

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“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”

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“Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.”

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“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”

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Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

About the Author

Born: August 26, 1941
Known for: American Political figure
Quotes: 243

Books & Sources

WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVESRelated source material

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American DreamRelated source material

Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined AmericaRelated source material

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaRelated source material

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live LongerRelated source material

Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided NationRelated source material

FEAR OF FALLINGRelated source material

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective JoyRelated source material

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about EverythingRelated source material

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of WarRelated source material

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