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Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman’s insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation – united in purpose – caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

Sometimes compromise is painful.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure – and it doesn’t see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

The first thousand days of a baby’s life are likely to determine the rest of her life – whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that’s where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it’s easier to combine career and family.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it’s usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Job Killer.’ Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn’t know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

It’s time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of ‘qualified.’ The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy – essential to keeping it alive.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

I’m not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You’ve got to have political courage. You’ve got to have your own inner beliefs.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected – not being part of the old boy’s network – gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

It’s time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It’s part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

It’s time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that’s when we’ll have equal power.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman’s place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can’t find or afford childcare, or she can’t work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family’s income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

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