More - Judy Rebick Quotes

The pressure on young working women to succeed totally in every aspect of their lives and be totally devoted to their children - the pressure is unimaginable. You don't have to imagine it - you live it. Young women today feel pressured to be perfect. ... essential issue.

Judy Rebick

 

The big problem is that there are no mainstream women's group arguing against it,

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[Rebick said it's time for younger women to take over the fight for equality, adding she wrote Ten Thousand Roses out of fear the history of the women's movement in Canada would get lost. Following the rise of feminism during the 1960s to 1980s,] we've seen almost a complete disappearance of the women's voice. A whole generation of women have grown up without any knowledge of the women's movement, ... There were no popular books on feminism so I wrote one.

Judy Rebick

 

It's two edges of the same coin; you see when you are obsessed with weight, getting fat is the other side of getting skinny,

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The best way to get someone to lose weight is to get them feeling OK about being fat.

Judy Rebick

 

This the first time we've seen a party in North America like this.

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They don't have the same focus on a leader that all of the other parties have. If we're going to have a real democracy, we're going to have to stop this great leader stuff, we have to stop this focus on one ? usually man ? to lead a party, and get leadership from everyone.

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[In response to a comment from the floor that] Sharia law will make all of the gains women made go up in a puff of smoke, ... the Christians and Jewish courts got their laws in the Arbitration Act and quietly under the radar the Jews and Christians have started to use it.

Judy Rebick

 

I'm disappointed that Marian Boyd, who is a feminist, would recommend such a thing,

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No religious law should have the force of secular law,

Judy Rebick