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Debora Spar

Writer

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Debora Spar is a writer, best known for Wonder women.

Quick Facts About Debora Spar

Profession: Writer
Notable works: Wonder women

About Debora Spar

Debora Lynn Spar is a professor and higher education administrator at Harvard Business School, and the former President of Barnard College and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She became the new Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School Online in January 2020.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Debora Spar

I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill…

Balanced

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I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the…

Careers

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I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be…

Can do

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I really don't see any men sitting in the corner office plotting to keep women out. All the men I know are…

Accurate

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Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

Blame

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We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.

Chaos

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I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to…

Blame

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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…

Clothings

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They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to…

Class

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Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their…

And love

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We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Myth

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If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook…

Angry

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I think what we need to do is to step back as a society and say okay, we've kind of turned things…

Done

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Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

Easy

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'Maybe' is what gets us into trouble, because I think constantly women are saying I'll try to do it, maybe I'll do…

Feeling guilty

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Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men,…

Able

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It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women…

Astronaut

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If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just…

Drains

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Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.

And love

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I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they…

Ambitious

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If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly…

Accurate

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We need to have honest conversations among women and men to say how do we stop blaming each other? Because I'm not…

Blame

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You have to learn to say no not just to things you don't want to do, you have to say no to…

Easier

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Women should feel more liberated to say you know what? I can't bake the cookies for the school bake sale because I…

Bake sale

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