Women still can't have it all. Anne-Marie Slaughter More Quotes by Anne-Marie Slaughter More Quotes From Anne-Marie Slaughter A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time? Anne-Marie Slaughter careersmenthinking When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96 cents for every dollar that a man is earning, while for mothers it is about 76 cents. That's nearly 25 percent less. For single mothers, the situation is even worse. One third of them are living in poverty or just on the edge of poverty. This is an unacceptable situation. Anne-Marie Slaughter mothermenchildren The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time. Anne-Marie Slaughter mothergivingchildren In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do. Anne-Marie Slaughter foreign-policyeffectsoffice My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off. Anne-Marie Slaughter husbandchildrenthinking I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way. Anne-Marie Slaughter ambitionmenmean We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. Anne-Marie Slaughter boatcaptainsnarrative I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that. Anne-Marie Slaughter faultsnarrativedone I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism. Anne-Marie Slaughter whitecountrythinking The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted. Anne-Marie Slaughter communityspringwatches I am still fully committed to male-female equality. Anne-Marie Slaughter malesfemalecommitted 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 achievementprideself-esteem 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 nursingemotionalrace Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride. Anne-Marie Slaughter shamedemandpride 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-provokingpoliticaltrying 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 lessonsdevelopmentresponsibility 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 thought-provokingethnicitylong
