Quotes by Ehrenreich, Barbara

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equiva >>

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief >>

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to th >>

Quotations about Famine

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has >>

There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, e >>

Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies. >>

When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally -- as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing -- if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.

Ehrenreich, Barbara