Eva Cox famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to represent these overlooked areas.
-- Eva Cox

#Leadership #Children #Responsibility
A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.
-- Eva Cox

#Leadership #Moving #Home
The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.
-- Eva Cox

#Leadership #Essence #People
We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.
-- Eva Cox

#Leadership #Validation #Identity
Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but excluding anything too emotional or nurturing, currently denies men this balance. Their ability to care is seen as inappropriate for everyday use, and a lack of desire for power or promotion are seen as signs of inadequacy.
-- Eva Cox

#Leadership #Men #Emotional
The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency
-- Eva Cox

#Agency #Walmart #Welfare
Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.
-- Eva Cox

#Women #Differences #Feminism
Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.
-- Eva Cox

#Trust #Order #Law
Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition
-- Eva Cox

#Sports #Running #Race

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

Eva Cox famous quotes

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