Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 26, 1941

Topics

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There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

Jimmy Smits

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I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.

Jodie Whittaker

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I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.

John David Washington

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Given the opportunity to do another 9/11, our vicious enemy would do it today, tomorrow, and every day thereafter. I don't know why they hate us, and I frankly don't care, but they do hate us and are driven irrationally to our destruction.

John F. Kelly

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We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.

Megan Smith

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I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

John Krasinski

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Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

Mia Wasikowska

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I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.

Stacey Dash

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My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

Maryanne Trump Barry

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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Ludwig Quidde

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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates

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It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Colin Hay

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