Anna D. Shapiro Quotes

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

The working mothers of America deserve medals.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

I love my mother, my wife, my sisters very much. I honour and respect them. Women are the keepers of the family.

I think, deep down, women know that we are the saviors of our families, right?

My mother had to make an unconventional decision. We had to run away from home. She made a really difficult decision to leave financial stability behind and undertake raising two girls on her own.

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.

I believe that raising the status of women in Turkey is a responsibility shared by everyone. It is not only in Turkey; we are still in need of serious support for the role of women in business and society all around the world.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of the workplace, but one of the continuing frustrations for women is the lack of respect they get for taking on the responsibility for domestic life, whether they're also working outside the home or not.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?