115 Quotes by Madeleine M. Kunin

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It’s part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman’s place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to ‘do it all,’ which often means, ‘all by themselves.’ Why? They’ve been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

Why are video games so violent? The ones I’ve seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

It’s time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it’s usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one’s own compass.

We’re all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Sometimes compromise is painful.