Marilyn Waring > Quotes

“Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.”
― Marilyn Waring

“our planet is going to hell. But it’s all OK, because it helps the growth figures.”
― Marilyn Waring, Still Counting: Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-making

“how GDP in fact imposed an ideology of applied patriarchy onto the measurement of economic progress, alongside many other limitations.”
― Marilyn Waring, Still Counting: Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-making