#am

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#experience #family #homes #kept #line

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#children #discipline #effort #family #family values

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#equal #equal rights #family #fighting #had

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#agenda #also #attack #bit #called

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#because #being #i #more #more and more

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. ↗

— Howard Koch

#lamb #might #sheep #well #you

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#certainly #enough #get #go #good

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#drama #drama school #get #go #i

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#bottom #continued #fine #gave #i

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#desire #even #failure #field #i