“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.” IfsMenWorldHas BeensPoliticalMotherDesireCultureWinningSituationTeachSurvivalDaughterStrategyMalesBetrayHostileMother DaughterAdrift Author:Elizabeth Debold
“In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.” PoliticalMotherPoliticsIndiaSouthFranceParksFloridaArcsNightingalesTeresaRosaFlorenceCrimeaFlorence Nightingale Author:Larry Gatlin
“The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanMightPoliticalMotherPoliticsProcessPayPoliticianIntegrityReformTunesRepresentativesRestoringFinancingPipersRepairingElectoral Process Author:Arianna Huffington
“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.” IfsFactsPoliticalLife IsMotherSocialCommonResponsibilityMoralConditionsCenturyIgnorancePleaseHopelessBetrayUrbanHollowTwentieth CenturyMockeryMoral ResponsibilityCommon Life Author:Mary Ritter Beard