Tom Perez Quotes

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

… post-industrial society

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.

Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has changed the way men think, but the trouble is, it hasn't changed the attitudes of babies at all.

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.

The dominance of daughters in the country has started rising. This is a good social change.

The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.

The idea of men earning and women waiting at home for them, is over.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.