35 Quotes by Debora Spar

They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.

I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.

If corporate profits do go down, it's highly likely that we could see the U.S. tumble into a recession.

The companies that are getting hurt are the ones like Motorola .