Katha Pollitt Quotes

Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.

Katha Pollitt

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Women
  • Game

• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Young

• Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
  • Way
  • Woman

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Free
  • Woman
  • Relationships

• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Moment

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Women
  • Movement
  • Vacation

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Television
  • Youth

• The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• The majority of women in America look like me.

  

  Brooke Elliott
  • Women
  • America

• There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • Women
  • Children
  • Giving

• There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • World

• Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Running

• Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Woman