Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.