What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national … - Anne-Marie Slaughter

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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

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My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

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The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.

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