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

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

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

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.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

You cannot, ever, give up on a friend who is close to giving up on themselves

I'm a buried kind of beautiful.Bring a shovel and a shooting starI may be a night's work.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.