Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their lo…

- Barbara Ehrenreich

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

- Barbara Ehrenreich

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 …

- Barbara Ehrenreich

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to m…

- Barbara Ehrenreich