Anna Holmes Quotes

• What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.

  Anna Holmes

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

  "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.

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• Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

  Anna Holmes

  White, Majority, World

  "How Jezebel Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2013.

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• My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.

  Anna Holmes

  Mother, Issues, Rights

  "How Jezebel Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2013.

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• People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

  Anna Holmes

  Powerful, People, Sometimes

  "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.

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• One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.

  Anna Holmes

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

  Anna Holmes

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everybody understands that the basis of being a Christian is that everyone has fallen short of God's ideal. Everyone understands that. We understand is that when there's a problem or failure is the family sticks together.

  Anna Holmes

  Christian, Together, Sticks

  Source: www.npr.org

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