"while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it."

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Barbara Ehrenreich

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“Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.”
“I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. I've found it most simple here in New York. You know, it's basically I have a, in a way, a 9-to-5 job, you know? I do eight shows a week. I live in New York City. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And it's actually wonderful.”
“My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...”
“I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.”
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”

Source : Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”
“I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.”
“I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.”

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