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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of women's participation in politics and honors the sacrifices made by suffragists.
Madeleine M. Kunin urges women to recognize their power and responsibility to vote, highlighting the historical struggles faced by suffragists who fought for this right. The call to 'wake up' serves as a reminder that active engagement in the democratic process is essential to honoring those who fought for equality and justice.
In practice
In a speech on International Women's Day, to inspire women to engage in politics.
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.
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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.
What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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.
What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
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