It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop … - Barbara Ehrenreich

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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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