It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happene…

- Debora Spar

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

- Debora Spar

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 see…

- Debora Spar

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

- Debora Spar

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

- Debora Spar

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

- Debora Spar

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

- Debora Spar

Women should feel more liberated to say you know what? I can't bake the cookies for the school bake sale because I just don't have the time. Or I'm r…

- 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 of goods that's no…

- Debora Spar