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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It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Bureaucracy
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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

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Attitude
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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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Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where youre not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like What did you do to yourself? I was so embarrassed. – Ashley Tisdale

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My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me. – Zosia Mamet

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My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because its what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while. – Tiffani Amber Thiessen

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mom

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And shes about 5 feet – and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare. – Vanessa Williams

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I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master. – David Rockefeller

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