Katha Pollitt
Related I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world ... LEAH WARD SEARS I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for... CALLIE KHOURI PATRICIA HILL COLLINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CHERIE BLAIR CORETTA SCOTT KING It used to be that we thought we could have it all as women and I think we're realizing that's a myt... DR. PAT HEDBERG MAGGIE HASSAN MONICA BELLUCCI I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, ... DAN MAFFEI PAULA PELL ISABEL ALLENDE I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful ab... ABIGAIL DISNEY I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it&#... GAL GADOT I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and... K. A. APPLEGATE MICHELLE OBAMA JA RULE Caring for children is the best contribution we can make towards a better world and future SOTONYE ANGA TUPAC SHAKUR JAMES THURBER Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'M... CLAIRE MESSUD SHERYL SANDBERG I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the c... DEBBIE ANDREWS JUDY GOLD KATHERINE PATERSON STEVE HARVEY DAVID ROBINSON Since we're in a small town, it's easy for people to assume they know all about the children, so I t... JAMIE SIMMONS I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there a... KRISTEN BELL I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if t... BETH LEWIS As a society, we need to think about what fairness means. Is the ability to reproduce a basic human ... DEBORA SPAR They believe they must provide the discipline to their children, and they have a need to be respecte... CINDY CHU JACKSON KATZ C. JOYBELL C. RACHEL NICHOLS STEVE JOBS DOROTHY L. SAYERS I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better... ANITA HILL CATHY GUISEWITE If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all thei... YAHYA JAMMEH DIANE VON FURSTENBERG ...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patien... ELDER PORPHYRIOS I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... HELEN SLATER ANA DE ARMAS CAITLIN MORAN If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being trea... PREITY ZINTA In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's... KELIS QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any rac... ALEX SANCHEZ I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise o... JADA PINKETT SMITH QUEEN VICTORIA NIECY NASH We are providing a cleaner source of water to avoid any health problems, and in the second instance ... MARK PETERS We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world... KEVIN ROLLINS VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so ... MELISSA MCCARTHY While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it wo... DIANE NELSON LISA SEE HENRI NOUWEN We had to act. As a doctor and as chief administrator of Kosovo, I would be derelict if I let this t... BERNARD KOUCHNER There is no one I have ever known who personified more the loving, caring universal mother figure. S... MARGARET JOHNSTON JODI PICOULT When I was in my gender class a lot of it was hard for me to listen to these women; I just felt they... BRANDI PERL Terry took the silence as acquiescence, “The other way to make money is to exploit people, oh, no ... ARUN D. ELLIS I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I... HARRIET HARMAN VICTORIA BECKHAM CINDY SHERMAN I was told by my mom when I was very young not to drink and to make good decisions so for those who ... ANDRE WILLIAMS CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's wher... KATE DEL CASTILLO It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children are all grown ... They are all starting... MICHAEL WALKER CRAIG GROESCHEL ZAHA HADID Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to f... KIMBERLEE ROTH HUGH MACKAY LISA KLEYPAS TAMORA PIERCE When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a... PATRICIA SCHROEDER PAT SCHROEDER JACK KORNFIELD EMMELINE PANKHURST LAURA DERN These children need a loving and caring home. They are not for whatever reason receiving it and anyb... WILLIAM COLEMAN ANN RICHARDS PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them so... MADHURI DIXIT I think we can knock them off their pedestal. I think we can do them but, more importantly, the team... BOB MORTON DIANE RAVITCH C. JOYBELL C. KATHA POLLITT All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better ... STAN FREBERG CRAIG GROESCHEL I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do.... JENNIFER CHIAVERINI I think [the board] needs common sense. I think it needs clarity, and I think it needs the ability t... JANE FELLNER GLORIA ALLRED MICHELLE BACHELET Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, ... LAURA BUSH Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; ... ALYSSA SUTHERLAND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT BRENDA UELAND
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family... 
My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have t... 
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to... 
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capaciti... 
Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and... 
All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work ... 
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, ben... 
Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support ... 
I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before ... 
since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why w... 
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. 
It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the righ... 
I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't thin... 
All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off... 
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no wome... 
Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, ... 
A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they... 
In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... 
They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we wan... 
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're bo... 
[On marriage and permanent attachment:]
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, a... 
When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think o... 
I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how... 
We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics c... 
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering... 
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very ... 
As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mo... 
I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendo... 
I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointe... 
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be domi... 
I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as l... 
I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to ... 
We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any ... 
I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I wa... 
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. 
Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Man... 
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all ava... 
Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would ... 
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a... 
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cann... 
If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like t... 
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and a... 
They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their chi... 
A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success fo... 
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as pr... 
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,... 
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with... 
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support... 
There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I... 
I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make ... 
In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing sec... 
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time fr... 
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - m... 
What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indiv... 
Know one, know all. 