335 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.