Anna Quindlen Quotes

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

No one knows what women want!

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

I don't think women are dumb.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.