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In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

~Faye Wattleton

Topics: Been Eyes Like Looked Myself Saw Tape Tired Very Were Where Would Youthful

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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.

~Faye Wattleton

Topics: Appearance Being Days Five Goes Gym Had Look Maintain Me Muscles People Person Plastic Plastic Surgery Society Surgery Tells Up Want Week Who Work

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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

~Faye Wattleton

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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

~Faye Wattleton

Topics: African-American Burden Carried Carry Counterparts Enormous Greater Many Men Perhaps Than White Women

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We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.

~Faye Wattleton

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The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

~Faye Wattleton

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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

~Faye Wattleton

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Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

~Faye Wattleton

Topics: Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Been Cast Cognizant Doors Generally Opening Played Race Role Terms The Doors Themselves Think Women I Think

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My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

~Faye Wattleton

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Sociologist

Born: July 8th, 1943

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