1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
4875
4876
4877
4878
4879
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b47e096 | A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious. | thing | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 1067cfb | A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws." | physics world | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 6b09636 | las grandes empresas cada vez se parecen mas a lo que llamamos sectas: organizaciones que exigen total sumision a un lider de inspiracion divina. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| fc76c2b | There are no secret economies that nourish the poor; on the contrary, there are a host of special costs. If you can't put up the two months' rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying through the nose for a room by the week. If you have only a room, with a hot plate at best, you can't save by cooking up huge lentil stews that can be frozen for the week ahead. You eat fast food or the hot dogs and Styrofoam cups of soup that can.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| b93acdc | The stock image of the early twentieth century, the "Negro" minstrel, a rural simpleton, the journalist Barbara Ehrenreich notes, has now been upgraded, whitened, and continued in such television programs as Duck Dynasty and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." | Arlie Russell Hochschild | ||
| f57a830 | With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| bd50be9 | the very notion of personality, which is what we are trying to get at here, seems to have very limited application to me and quite possibly to everyone else. Self is another dodgy concept, since I am, when I subject this 'I' to careful inspection, not much more than a flickering of affinities, habits, memories, and predilections that could go either way- towards neediness or independence for example courage or cowardice. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| f6998d5 | Very often in a classroom or a conversation I feel like yelling, 'What difference does it make?' Because 94% of my life is occupied with utter trivia. Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifference to what is urgently important to others. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 0d56e72 | In Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Verso, 1997), Kim Moody cites studies finding an increase in stress-related workplace injuries and illness between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. He argues that rising stress levels reflect a new system of "management by stress" in which workers in a variety of industries are being squeezed to extract maximum productivity, to the detriment of their health." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| d0605bd | Si hablamos en terminos globales, el mayor obstaculo para la felicidad es la pobreza. Las encuestas sobre felicidad, hasta donde podemos confiar en ellas, muestran siempre que los paises mas felices del mundo suelen ser los mas ricos. Estados Unidos esta en el puesto 23 y el Reino Unido en el 41, por ejemplo; mientras que la India aparece en el nada halagueno puesto 125 (de 178 paises). | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 3646f41 | La mayoria elegiriamos a un medico que este dispuesto a investigar si el diagnostico podria ser el peor posible, en vez de uno que llegue enseguida a la conclusion de que todo esta fenomenal. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| f7a5a30 | Six witnesses affirmed that Jacoba had cured them, even after numerous doctors had given up, and one patient declared that she was wiser in the art of surgery and medicine than any master physician or surgeon in Paris. But these testimonials were used against her, for the charge was not that she was incompetent, but that--as a woman--she dared to cure at all. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 0c6330e | never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 20fd9c9 | Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 408553b | Every one seems to be scrubbing their white steps. All the houses look like tidy jails, with their outside shutters. Several have crepe on the door-handles, and many have flags flying from roof or balcony. Few men appear, and the women seem to do the business, which, perhaps, accounts for its being so well done. | humor | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 28413f0 | ella misma fuera muchacho. Si los Laurence hubieran sido lo que Jo llamaba "tiesos y almidonados", no se hubiera entendido con ellos, porque la gente asi siempre la coartaba e irritaba; pero viendolos tan francos y naturales, ella lo estaba tambien y les produjo buena impresion. Cuando se levantaron quiso despedirse, pero Laurie dijo que tenia algo mas que mostrarle, y la condujo al invernadero que estaba iluminado en su honor. Era como un .. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3a84723 | Very likely some Mrs Grundy will observe, "I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles." I dare say you don't, Mrs. Grundy, but it's true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings." | good-wives men women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| ee06ea8 | never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5c92457 | El mundo esta lleno de mujeres como Beth, timidas y tranquilas, que aguardan sentadas en un rincon hasta que alguien las necesita, que se entregan a los demas con tanta alegria que nadie ve su sacrificio hasta que el pequeno grillo del hogar cesa de chirriar y la dulce soledad desaparece para dejar tras de si silencio y oscuridad. | mujercitas | Louisa May Alcott | |
| d82a354 | Oh, Jo, can't you?" "Teddy, dear, I wish I could!" -- | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9c876ab | Who are your heroes?" asked Jo. "Grandfather and Napoleon." "Which lady here do you think prettiest?" said Sallie. "Margaret." "Which do you like best?" from Fred. "Jo, of course." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a7be63c | Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d95af29 | I am a governess myself." "Oh, indeed!" said Miss Kate, but she might as well have said, "Dear me, how dreadful!" for her tone implied it, and something in her face made Meg color, and wish she had not been so frank. Mr. Brooke looked up and said quickly, "Young ladies in America love independence as much as their ancestors did, and are admired and respected for supporting themselves." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8005ce5 | happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| fb12620 | I'd rather give her new ones, for I think she is a little bit proud and might not like old things. If she was my sister it would do, because sisters don't mind, but she isn't, and that makes it bad, you see. I know how I can manage beautifully; I'll adopt her!" and Rose looked quite radiant with" | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 58564b7 | November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c642c0f | Cast away at the very bottom of the table was the Professor, shouting answers to the questions of a very inquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talking philosophy with a Frenchman on the other. If Amy had been here, she'd have turned her back on him forever because, sad to relate, he had a great appetite, and shoveled in his dinner in a manner which would have horrified 'her ladyship'. I didn't mind, for I like 'to see folks eat w.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3f831ba | To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 66c2306 | But he did, oh, bless you, yes, hundreds of times, and so did Meg, both declaring that it was the sweetest jelly they ever made; for family peace was preserved in that little family jar. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| fe04c80 | Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me..." "As you do us..." interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are," | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f9bbe9b | For love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. The | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 487e24a | Beautiful souls often get put into plain bodies, but they cannot be hidden, and have a power all their own, the greater for the unconsciousness or the humility which gives it grace. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3412208 | I wish Americans were as simple and natural as Germans, don't you? I'm | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9389fa0 | though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 23f9c46 | I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end? If I don't seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to comfort and sustain me. My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| edffc67 | Better lose your life than your soul, and one such passion leads to worse sins, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6973c3c | Constant complaints were being made of incompetent attendants, and some dozen women did double duty, and then were blamed for breaking down. If any hospital director fancies this a good and economical arrangement, allow one used up nurse to tell him it isn't, and beg him to spare the sisterhood, who sometimes, in their sympathy, forget that they are mortal, and run the risk of being made immortal, sooner than is agreeable to their partial f.. | civil-war-narrative | Louisa May Alcott | |
| fb1a688 | was a long upper hall full | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 38f15b6 | There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty. | motherhood security | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 0e60230 | Oh, Mother, help me, do help me! | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 1449c54 | By-and-by Jo roamed away upstairs, for it was rainy, and she could not walk. A restless spirit possessed her, and the old feeling came again, not bitter as it once was, but a sorrowfully patient wonder why one sister should have all she asked, the other nothing. It was not true, she knew that and tried to put it away, but the natural craving for affection was strong, and Amy's happiness woke the hungry longing for someone to 'love with hear.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 60564c5 | These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5f142f0 | Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does. I'm sure Aunt March is a regular Old Man of the Sea to me, but I suppose when I've learned to carry her without complaining, she will tumble off, or get so light that I shan't mind her. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 41faca6 | Now, if you make fun of my plan I'll give you bad coffee for a week, and then where are you, sir?" cried Mrs. Jo, tweaking him by the ear just as if he was one of the boys." | Louisa May Alcott |