Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”

“Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.”

“The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.”

“I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.”

“I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.”

“Someone has to stand up for wimps.”

“Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.”

“Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.”