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

Other quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Drugs
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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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Universe, The
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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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Science
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mom
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Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I dont want that to affect me too much. – Missy Franklin

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mom

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid. – Soleil Moon Frye

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mom

Dinner conversation at the Cohens meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the days events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head. – Andy Cohen

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mom

I think if I could be any superhero, itd probably be my mom… but I dont think Id look too good in high heels, so its not gonna happen. – Jason Behr

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mom

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The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat. – John McNulty

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. – John Foster Dulles

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Success

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage. – Jack Kingston

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Marriage

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Children