Faye Wattleton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Faye Wattleton quotes and sayings page 2 (sociologist). These are the last 9 out of 19 quotes we have.
“I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.”
“In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.”
“The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.”
“The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.”
“Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.”
“Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.”
“My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.”
“This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.”
“We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.”
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