The Shriver Report Quotes

“Men are taught to view women as “less than.” Far too many aspects of manhood and masculinity are defined by devaluing women. Men are taught to have higher expectations of our sons and lower expectations of our daughters. That’s because the men before us taught us to minimize and trivialize the experience of women and girls—even the women and girls in our own lives. We pass that teaching on to our sons and other boys. I’m not saying this is true for every man, but I am saying that it happens far too often, with far too many of us.”
― Maria Shriver, The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink

“The Shriver Report reveals this quiet reality: The people who we expect to raise us, care for us, and work to support us are too often left unsupported and uncared for.”
― Maria Shriver, The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink

“Opportunity becomes a family tradition when we design programs and policies with the whole family’s educational and economic future in mind and help them access the social networks needed to make it in life.”
― Maria Shriver, The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink