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My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot).
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When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.
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In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.
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The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.
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Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
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We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
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It was interesting that feminists of my generation told me: You are discouraging younger women you are confirming stereotypes of women you are opening a door, initiating a debate, that will harm our movement. And my point was: We are already having this debate, especially in the younger generation.
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The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.
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Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
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What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.
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Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
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Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.
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