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
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich
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
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good. – Barbara Ehrenreich