Suzanne Venker Quotes

If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.

Does rejecting feminism mean rejecting women's equality? No, because that's not what feminism is about. Rejecting feminism means recognizing that women don't need feminism to make them equal to men because they already are equal--just not the same.

Conservatism is a natural state because it accepts human nature as it is, rather than trying to fight it.

no amount of money in the world can make up for parental absence. It’s one of life’s harshest realities.

Feminism has indeed made women miserable. It was a mistake to encourage women to ignore their feminine instincts and whine about how badly they have it.

The pursuit of promiscuous sexual pleasures leads chiefly to misery and despair. —George Gilder

Gender relations are dependent on men being men and women being women.

People who succeed do not expect every company to reward fairly; they screen for companies that will recognize their contribution,” wrote Warren Farrell, Ph.D. in The Myth of Male Power.2

Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.

Men know women are powerful, and we don’t mind that one bit. It empowers us that you’re empowered,” writes clinical psychiatrist Paul Dobransky, M.D. “Unless, that is, you disempower us in order to feel empowered.”3

My parents were forever making lemonade. Neither responded to problems by drinking too much, taking anti-depressants, overeating, or suggesting they were victims. In fact, I can’t recall a single day my parents slept in—the way many of us might when life throws a wrench in our plans. My parents were (are in the case of my mother—my father died in 2008) unfailingly resilient people, capable of waking up each day with a positive attitude, a new resolve to make things better. Part of this was due to their personalities, but it was also because of the generation in which they were raised.

Feminists want you to think the reason mothers in the past didn’t do what mothers do today is because women were oppressed. But the real reason women planned their lives accordingly is because they were less focused on themselves and more concerned with the greater good, and part of the greater good meant taking responsibility for one’s children. Modern women, on the other hand, have been taught to focus on their own needs—what they want is what matters most in life. So if women don’t want to, or “choose” to, stay home with their children, they shouldn’t have to. Despite

It’s true that in the 1950s many women felt they had to choose between children and career—and for good reason. Birth control was not a surefire thing, for one thing. And technology hadn’t advanced enough to offer women the gift of time. The reason modern women have a better shot at “having it all” isn’t because feminists made it happen. Life simply changed. Technological advances, along with The Pill, did more for the work/family conflict than ten boatloads of feminists could ever hope to do. The effects of The Pill are obvious: safe, reliable birth control means those who want smaller families can have them. And fewer children means more time for women to focus on other things they want to do. The effects of technology are also obvious: they made life at home less taxing. Laborsaving devices, the mechanization of housework, and the tech boom—via electricity, the sewing machine, the frozen food process, the automobile, the washing machine and dryer, the dishwasher, the vacuum cleaner, computers, and the Internet—allowed women, generation by generation, to turn their attention away from the home and onto the marketplace.

It is our sincere hope that this book helps support Americans who don’t believe women in this country are oppressed, who know government is not the solution to women’s problems, who don’t believe marriage and motherhood are outdated institutions, who think men are as important as women, who think gender roles are good and exist for a reason, and who see the mainstream media for who they are.

there has never been a better time for women to have it all. A feminist or left-wing approach to life will not help women achieve this goal. A conservative approach will.

Feminism is a structural analysis of a world that oppresses women, an ideology based on the notion that patriarchy exists and that it needs to end.”24

Many people don’t realize that the entire women’s movement was predicated on a Marxist view of the world. Feminism is a branch of socialism, or collectivism, which draws on a sociopolitical movement that attempts to create a stateless society in which policy decisions are pursued in the (supposed) best interest of society. Feminism, like communism, depends on hypothesizing an oppressed class.

If feminism appears to be dead, that’s only because the media seldom use the term feminist. This makes feminism appear mainstream, rather than a fringe movement.

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Every person is a bridge spanning two legacies: the one they inherit and the one they pass on. Family pathology rolls from generation to generation, like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path, until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares all the children that follow.”47 Be that person.

But most men don’t expect women to do all the work at home. They just don’t care whether or not the laundry gets done or the beds get made. That’s a critical distinction.

According to a 2007 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, “As women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy.”13

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. —C. S. Lewis

The ideal mate for an alpha female is a beta male who’s strong in his own right but who doesn’t need to assert himself in the way an alpha does. A beta male’s strength lies in his class and in his dignity. He’s fine being married to a strong-willed woman—in fact, he likes it—but he would never let her run all over him. He laughs and enjoys her feistiness, but he commands her respect. Moreover, he likes being her tamer. And she likes it, too.