• I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

  Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31)

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  American author and political activist 1941-
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. understand
2. cigarette
3. responds
4. reproach
5. yourself
6. smoking

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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself. by : Barbara Ehrenreich

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