Anne-Marie Slaughter Quotes

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

If we’re going to have better choices for women, we’ve got to have better choices for men.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn’t mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

We all love narratives where we’re the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

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.

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.

Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future – and then make your choice.

I’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).

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

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.

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.

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.