35 Quotes by Debora Spar

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    Don’t take too much credit for your children – or too much blame!

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    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.

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    If we don’t find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can’t afford to do that.

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

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    I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we’re actually selling younger women a bill of goods that’s not true.

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    I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing to say I’m really excited about this part of my life, but I’m screwing up over here, or this is a mistake I’ve made, or this is something I’ve given up on.

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    I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I’m ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.

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    I certainly wouldn’t go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a new set of expectations, a new set of opportunities for women, and they did.

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