Barbara EhrenreichThinkers

America is a country addicted to wars of distraction.

The Breast cancer cult is the perverse prettying up of cancer with 'pink sticky sentiment' in the American breast cancer culture in a way that makes it a perversely positive and enviable experience.

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Crime is seen, when in the city, as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, crimes are often taken to be intimate and psychological, resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

The Cult of cheerfulness is the idea that Americans ought to 'think positively' rather than to take positive action for change.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

No, but generation is a generation that claims not to be feminist while at the same time expecting to receive equal treatment in their professional lives.

Revolution is anger that is affliction being transmuted into the anger that is determination to bring about change.