If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother,… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
I really don't see any men sitting in the corner office plotting to keep women out. All the men I know are actively trying to promote women, to get more women involved. These men have wives they care about; they have daughters they desperately care about. So I don't think it's fair to blame men - or I don't think… — Debora Spar Copy Share
We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos. — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
It's oppressive. ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection. — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook dinner; somebody… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
