Naomi Wolf Quotes

I think it's incredibly important to spend the first year with your child, and it should be made possible for all women.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

Men should have more time with their newborn babies.

Women had to deal with the men's response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the women's response as men want more time in.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.

I was happy to spend time with my family, get to know my daughter, who was born during The West Wing. I missed her first words. I missed her first steps. I'd leave work before she woke up and got home after she was asleep and didn't really know her. So it was important for that reason to reintroduce myself to the family after all of that hard work.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.