Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.
Barbara EhrenreichThe money that fueled the explosion of gluttony at the top had to come from somewhere or, more specifically, from someone. Since no domestic oil deposits had been discovered, no new seams of uranium or gold, and since the war in Iraq enriched only the military contractors and suppliers, it had to come from other Americans.
Barbara EhrenreichThe nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
Barbara EhrenreichI have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
Barbara Ehrenreich