"Marriage is socialism among two people."

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Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

Barbara Ehrenreich

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“I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.”
“Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.”
“My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.”
“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
“Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.”

Source : "Song: "The Best Of What's Around" ("Under the Table and Dreaming")". September 27, 1994.
“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
“Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.”

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