Protective Legislation

Famous quotes containing the words protective legislation, protective and/or legislation:

    You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.
    —Mary Bell-Richards. “Protective Legislation in England,” Equal Rights (October 3, 1925)

    How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
    Hortense Odlum (1892–?)

    Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.
    Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)