“It’s so rare that you actually remain friends with somebody you work with, especially females.”
–actress Kate Hudson, who starred with Naomi Watts in “Le Divorce,” in Vanity Fair
“By its very nature, pregnancy is the exclusive and private domain of women. Men who think otherwise reveal a stunning lack of humility.”
–dad of seven, granddad of nine Steven Lewis of New Paltz, N.Y., in a letter to The New York Times
“It really would have helped if she could have gone to prison for a short time. But she’s suffered loss and humiliation. The recovery is when we all come on board and say, `Go, girl!'”
–Jeremy Baker, communications lecturer at London University, on model Kate Moss, who is emerging from a drug scandal that threatened to end her career, in USA Today
“We are taught that men are strong and women are weak. Men are purposeful; women are frivolous. Men are rational; women are emotional. Men are aggressive; women are passive. Men are competitive; women are collaborative. One challenge for women over the past few decades has been learning to be strong in the world without adopting a perverted and unhealthy masculine archetype.”
–environmentalist and social entrepreneur Nina Simons, on stereotypes about what is masculine and feminine, in Utne
“I love the fact that you don’t have to think so much. The top and bottom are already together. I find them easy.”
–Deborah Lloyd, executive vice president of design at Banana Republic, referring to dresses, to the Associated Press
“We need to get beyond the gender wars. Wanting both boys and girls to succeed–we don’t think that’s a zero-sum game.”
–Elena Silva, a research director at the American Association for University Women, in The Kansas City Star
“Up until now, children have been a gift, and you didn’t have much choice about the kind you got. Now they’ll be less a gift and more a project, and if you don’t take advantage of this technology, you might be guilty of `genetic negligence.'”
–C. Ben Mitchell, associate professor of bioethics and contemporary culture at Trinity International University in Deerfield, about advances in genetic testing during pregnancy, in Child
“The terrorists are quite aware of the profiles that exist, and they always change things just enough to throw them off. … It’s a win-win-proposition for the terrorists.”
–Mia Bloom, author of “Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror,” on the element of surprise that female suicide bombers present and how U.S. soldiers in Iraq are feeling the need to “invasively” search Muslim women in a way that is expected to feed public anger, in Newsweek
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Compiled by WomanNews staff
