Quotes by Judy Rebick

“The pressure on young working women to succeed totally in every aspect of their lives and be totally devoted to their children - the pressure is unimaginable. You dont have to imagine it - you live it. Young women today feel pressured to be perfect. ... essential issue.”

“[Rebick said its time for younger women to take over the fight for equality, adding she wrote Ten Thousand Roses out of fear the history of the womens movement in Canada would get lost. Following the rise of feminism during the 1960s to 1980s,] weve seen almost a complete disappearance of the womens voice. A whole generation of women have grown up without any knowledge of the womens movement, ... There were no popular books on feminism so I wrote one.”

“Its two edges of the same coin; you see when you are obsessed with weight, getting fat is the other side of getting skinny,”

“The best way to get someone to lose weight is to get them feeling OK about being fat.”

“This the first time weve seen a party in North America like this.”

“They dont have the same focus on a leader that all of the other parties have. If were going to have a real democracy, were going to have to stop this great leader stuff, we have to stop this focus on one ? usually man ? to lead a party, and get leadership from everyone.”

“[In response to a comment from the floor that] Sharia law will make all of the gains women made go up in a puff of smoke, ... the Christians and Jewish courts got their laws in the Arbitration Act and quietly under the radar the Jews and Christians have started to use it.”

“Im disappointed that Marian Boyd, who is a feminist, would recommend such a thing,”

“No religious law should have the force of secular law,”

“The big problem is that there are no mainstream womens group arguing against it,”