Debora L. Spar > Quotes

“As a result, ostensibly liberated women often found themselves struggling with three full-time jobs: working inside the home, working outside the home, and trying to be thin.”
― Debora L. Spar, Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

“As technology evolves, in other words, so do we.”
― Debora L. Spar, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

“I was in a book group in 1973,” she recounted. “We read The Feminine Mystique one week, and the next week everyone went out and got a job. The book group never met again.”
― Debora L. Spar, The Abramson Effect

“[She] discovered what feminism intended to be about, or at least a piece of what it promised to the generations who followed blindly in its wake. The freedom to live one's life apart from any prescribed pathway. The ability to love men and children and jobs but not lose one's self to them. The opportunity to embrace choices rather than just have them.”
― Debora L. Spar, Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

“was technology that changed this world, and created a future that was different from the past. Because once technology crashed into people’s lives—once it upended the age-old ways of farming or building or moving—people living through any particular moment in time could imagine later moments that were different, and better.”
― Debora L. Spar, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

“As a first step, let me suggest that the quest for perfection simply must end.”
― Debora L. Spar

“definition of “technology” is all the things that were invented after you came of age.”
― Debora L. Spar, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

“According to one recent economic study, even today, centuries after adopting this technology, women from plow-based cultures are less likely to participate in their society’s labor force than are women from cultures that never embraced the plow.18”
― Debora L. Spar, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny