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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Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Thats free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you dont even have to be a player to lose. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

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Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine – Philip K. Dick

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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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