A Quote by Sharan Burrow

When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.

Sharan Burrow

Quote Topics

Bear Burden Everyone Expected Loses Unpaid Women Women Are Work

Quote Author

Sharan Burrow
Welsh - Activist
Born: December 12, 1954

It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

Mike Mendez

No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.

Annie Lowrey

Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'

Saint Boniface

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

Leymah Gbowee

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.

Hilda Scott

GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.

Winnie Byanyima

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

Carrie Underwood

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

George MacDonald

The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work, unpaid, for white families.

Alicia Garza

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

John Newton

What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold

Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience that not only showed women how much they contribute but turned Icelandic men into supporters of gender equality. I aim to achieve the same impact in the UK.

Catherine Mayer

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

Harold B. Lee

Sometimes, when you are one of only a couple of girls in an engineering class, you feel like you are representing women in general. That is a large burden to bear.

Emily Calandrelli

A Quote by Sharan Burrow

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors