the glass ceiling QUOTES

1 " It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly. "

― Caitlin Moran , How to Be a Woman

2 " Don’t aim to break the glass ceiling "

3 " Breaking through the glass ceiling is only possible if you are stronger than glass. "

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4 " A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war--killing people around the world, many of them women and children. "

― Liza Featherstone , False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

5 " If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices. "

― Emily Matchar , Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity