Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes

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

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

For 150 years a woman was regarded as some kind of prostitute if she wanted to go into business….Young girls were supposed to have their focus on motherhood and babies.

I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get all women out of the homes and into the workforce. And again and again, they taught that the only fulfilling lifestyle was to be in the workforce reporting to a boss instead of being in the home reporting to a husband.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

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

That's one of the unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement - that, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be feminine, they would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.

A lot of women feel like they put their ambitions on hold sometimes because they do hold down the household and that's something that has to change.

Why women will do all the household works? It should change.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.