Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And thats really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So its very different. Youre out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasnt that fascinating. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? – Barbara Ehrenreich

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If thats how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that whats left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). – Barbara Ehrenreich

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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. – Kurt Vonnegut

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