If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices. Emily Matchar
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  1. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. - Martha Gellhorn

  2. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,... - Jane Austen

  3. There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. - Audre Lorde

  4. The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-, ’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to... - Mary Daly

  5. Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. - George Carlin

More Quotes By Emily Matchar
  1. Her conclusion: "You just have to follow your own heart" when it comes to medical decision-making.

  2. Attachment parenting, Sears writes, "immunizes children against many of the social and emotional diseases which plague our society, " producing children who are "compassionate, " "caring, " "admirable, " "affectionate, " "confident, " and "accomplished" ("faster than a speeding bullet, " "more powerful than a...

  3. When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that "having it all" is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a simple matter of "choice, " we ignore the systematic problems...

  4. Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?

  5. American culture at large has failed working mothers.

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