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The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
- Faye Wattleton
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#Deal
#Relieved
#Women
#Workforce
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
- Faye Wattleton
#Burden
#Carry
#Men
#White
#Women
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
- Faye Wattleton
#Bad
#Children
#Country
#Father
#Mother
Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.
- Faye Wattleton
#Action
#Doors
#Opening
#Race
#Women
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
- Faye Wattleton
#Excellence
#Man
#Performance
#Tough
#Who
Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
- Faye Wattleton
#Appearance
#Look
#Me
#Society
#Work
'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
- Faye Wattleton
#Believe
#Choice
#I Believe
#Knowledge
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
- Faye Wattleton
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#Me
#Mother
#Order
#Things
I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
- Faye Wattleton
#Environment
#I Was Raised
#Narrow
#Very
I have never believed in the impossible.
- Faye Wattleton
#Believed
#Impossible
#Never
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
- Faye Wattleton
#Never
#Sad
#Society
#Way
#Women
The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
- Faye Wattleton
#Influence
#Parents
#Permanent
#Powerful
We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.
- Faye Wattleton
#Long
#Power
#Way
#Will
#Women
In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
- Faye Wattleton
#Eyes
#Like
#Myself
#Tired
#Where
The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
- Faye Wattleton
#Country
#Rights
#Understanding
#Women
I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
- Faye Wattleton
#Black
#Good
#Long
#Personality
#Women
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
- Faye Wattleton
#Country
#History
#People
#Sympathy
#Way
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
- Faye Wattleton
#Better
#Commitment
#Satisfaction
#World
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
- Faye Wattleton
#Leadership
#Only
#Safe
#Ship
#Storm
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