Anne-Marie Slaughter Quotes

#1. 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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#2. In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

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#3. The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

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#4. If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

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#5. My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

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#6. I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.

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#7. I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.

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#8. Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

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#12. Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

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#13. Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

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#14. 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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#15. We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

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#16. A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time?

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#17. The societies that work build an infrastructure of care
as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

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#18. 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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#19. Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.

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#20. 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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#21. I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?

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#22. 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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#23. We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

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#24. It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe.

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#25. Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

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#26. In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

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