Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

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A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
In my experience, any class or assembly restricted to girls was going to be in some way degrading, like the one where we — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Most accounts of mystical experiences... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "living" or alive, as in " — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
You can talk about depression as a "chemical imbalance" all you want, but it presents itself as an external antagonist - — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
That's what "meaning" is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem p — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is? — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education. — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted t — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
My religious friends - and my friends were almost all Catholics or Protestants or occasionally something more exotic lik — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The conventional term is "mystical experience," meaning something that by its very nature lies beyond the reach of langu — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I w — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at ag — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility. — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen every single person, — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything