If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as … - Barbara Ehrenreich

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

Barbara Ehrenreich

If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

Condition, Fighting, Men, Nearly, Pregnancy, Way

Same Author Quotes

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

America, Born, Fugitive, Homeless, Illegals

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

Jesus, Wine, Atheism, Socialist, Precocious

Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job. ' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.

Jobs, Children, Home, Tell, Relationship, Mommy

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

Real, Understanding, Might, Spend, Question, Love

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

America, Prison, Program, Passed, Point, Already