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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production — only to produce a race of bed-wetters! – Barbara Ehrenreich

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