#am

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#am #american #britain #choice #english

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#autonomy #been #brief #close #family

Marriage is socialism among two people. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#marriage #people #socialism #two #two people

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #both #category #chronic #class

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#created #our #problems #same #solve

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ↗

— William Glasser

#affluent #educational #educational opportunities #families #goal

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#bankruptcy #cause #debts #medical

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#created #level #no problem #problem #same

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

#bit #guess #i #i am

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ↗