Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes (85 quotes)

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„Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.“
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„It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.“
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„As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.“
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„Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.“
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„There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.“
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„Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?“
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„If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.“
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„If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.“
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„Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.“
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„Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.“
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„To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.“
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„The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.“
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„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.“
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„The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.“
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„We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.“
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„Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.“
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„Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.“
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„Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.“
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„Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.“
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„Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.“

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Madeleine M. Kunin
Author born: September 28, 1933
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Diplomat

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