Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pede

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Television
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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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Science Fiction
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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Innovation
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Other Quotes from
mom
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Im a mom – Im lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. Ive been so bad on the upkeep, though. – Idina Menzel

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mom

I would borrow my moms red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown! – Brooke Burns

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mom

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for Annie, and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because Id never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show. – Jacqueline Emerson

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mom

Everything I am is because of my mom. – Sarah Michelle Gellar

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mom

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Funny is funny. – Don Rickles

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funny

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. – Leigh Hunt

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Imagination

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests – but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers? – John Amery

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Dreams

Courage is a kind of salvation. – Plato

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Courage