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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f2e0bb | Business models and value propositions expire like a yogurt in the fridge. | Alexander Osterwalder | ||
| e80d058 | They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake. | Alexander Pope | ||
| cf4e88f | The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul. | Alexander Pope | ||
| a1f447c | blowzy head to her shoulder and kissing the wet cheek so tenderly that Jo cried even harder. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d3e290b | he came for her sake alone. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7e7d934 | Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 37ce246 | Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 677df89 | How vast a memory has Love! | Alexander Pope | ||
| f4dba7f | Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days! | Alexander Pope | ||
| 2886dd9 | Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend. | Alexander Pope | ||
| a7e558b | If we want developed societies with women doctors, political leaders, teachers, bus drivers, and computer programmers, we will need qualified people to give loving care to their children. And there is no reason why every society should not enjoy such loving paid child care. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| e71a26d | But mining is also an intellectual exercise, requiring the combined skills of a plumber, a carpenter, and an electrician as well as an explosives expert. You had to be able to judge the load strength of a beam or the friability of rock at a glance and do instant calculations in your head, because one false step or misplaced stick of dynamite could blow you into body parts or at least send a few digits flying off on their own. So this was th.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| a3fc9c6 | Way before puberty, before the journal, before the formulation of my life's mission, when I must have been eight or younger, I had a rule: "Think in complete sentences." No giving way to inner screams or sobs--just keep stringing out words in grammatical order. This was a way to keep from going under" | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| c4a84ac | We don't usually talk about American nationalism, but it is a mark of how deep it runs that we apply the word "nationalism" to Serbs, Russians, and others, while believing ourselves to possess a uniquely superior version called "patriotism." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 83718fd | Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie and a sense of collective purpose at the microlevel of the "team". And the less teamlike the overall organization became with the threat of continuous downsizing, the more management insisted on individual devotion to these largely fictional units." | capitalism corporations corporatism downsizing flexploitation jobseeking motivational | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 22a0c7b | To this day, and no doubt for good reasons, suffering remains the almost exclusive preoccupation of professional psychology. Journals in the field have published forty-five thousand articles in the last thirty years on depression, but only four hundred on joy.40 | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 43bb6ae | Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop. | funny kids nickel-and-dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| d860eb4 | Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life. | life old suffering | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 7ceda43 | But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the "cruel irony" that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: "The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents." | gentrification nickel-and-dimed poverty rent | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| b8be9eb | It was doubtless true," she later wrote "that I was 'Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 7e71292 | Lo primero que hay que tener en cuenta es que nuestro sistema inmunologico esta disenado para detectar invasiones externas y pasar por alto a nuestras propias celulas. Con unas pocas excepciones, el sistema inmunologico no parece reconocer los canceres que desarrolla el individuo como intrusos, porque de hecho son parte de el mismo."17" | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 82a9779 | En 2004, un estudio puso de manifiesto que el optimismo no aportaba beneficio alguno, en terminos de supervivencia, a los que sufrian cancer de pulmon, | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 7317052 | Hasta el ambito academico, que uno podia considerar un reducto seguro para los grunones y misantropos, esta empezando a sufrir las incursiones del pensamiento positivo. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 511b348 | WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of the opening struggles in the history of man's suppression of women as healers. The other side of the suppression of witches as healers was the creation of a new male medical profession, under the protection and patronage of the ruling classes. T.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 12de3b8 | Just as welfare was said to "cause poverty," the experts may soon announce that Medicare causes baldness and that Social Security is a risk factor for osteoporosis: the correlations are undeniable." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 706c42f | European travelers to every continent witnessed people coming together to dance with wild abandon around a fire, synchronized to the beat of drums, often to the point of exhaustion. In Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich describes how European explorers reacted to these dances: with disgust. | Jonathan Haidt | ||
| a60dd15 | The first time I had a pap smear done, I was so traumatized, I now take prescription Xanax to avoid having panic attacks when I get pap smears done now. And I'm only 24. How many more am I going to have to have for the rest of my life? What am I going to do when I want to have children and every doctor wants to shove his/her fingers and tools inside me? | panic-attacks pap-smear xanax | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| e7810b5 | Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 82897ab | chaqueteo, | Isabel Allende | ||
| 0e28f3b | Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 6fabfa9 | not? | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 37bc57c | Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. | Alexander Pope | ||
| be0e1e6 | Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child. | Alexander Pope | ||
| f25338b | mother's Diana-like | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d436d34 | children should be children as long as they can. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 0fd4132 | Laurie thought the task of forgetting his love for Jo would absorb all his powers for years; but, to his surprise, he discovered it grew easier every day. He refused to believe it at first,--got angry with himself, and couldn't understand it; but these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us. Laurie's heart wouldn't ache; the wound persisted in healing with a rapidity that astonishe.. | memory | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 885fcf3 | Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down cellar I'll have them drowned," exclaimed Meg angrily as she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach." -- | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5f94a71 | If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right, for more ungrateful wretches than we are were never seen," cried Jo, taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9540f15 | Spanish* No encuentro palabras para explicaros el reencuentro entre madre e hijas. Son momentos muy hermosos de vivir pero muy dificiles de describir [...] | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6a9069d | I beg your pardon for being so rude, but sometimes you forget to put down the curtain at the window where the flowers are. And when the lamps are lighted, it's like looking at a picture to see the fire, and you all around the table with your mother. Her face is right opposite, and it looks so sweet behind the flowers, I can't help watching it. I haven't got any mother, you know. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 4c591a0 | We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like. I just wish, though, instead of peeping, you'd come over and see us. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e5aa222 | pure-hearted old man, and were both rebuked and saved; gifted men found a companion in him; ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own; and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although 'they wouldn't pay'. To outsiders, the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things; but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the h.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 0e4d434 | boards," said Jo. "We ought to rehearse tonight." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6fc07de | My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted. | faith guardianship | Louisa May Alcott |