Anne-Marie Slaughter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Responsibility #Development #Lessons
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.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Fun #Believe #Parent
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.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Men #Expansion #Roles
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Nursing #Emotional #Race
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.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Self Esteem #Pride #Achievement
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.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Country #Pride #Done
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.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Mother #Children #Father
Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Children #Successful #Opportunity
Women still can't have it all.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Stills
If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Men #Choices
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Years #Law #Peaceful
In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Ethnicity #Long #Thought Provoking
What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Thought Provoking #Political #Trying
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Care #Infrastructure #Wells
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women â€¦ that will be a society that works for everyone.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Numbers #Significant
In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Love You #Matter #Ends
Iâ€™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).
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Beautiful #Home #Men
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.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Powerful #Ambition #Trying
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Pride #Demand #Shame
I am still fully committed to male-female equality.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Males #Female #Committed

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