Top 17 Crystal Eastman Quotes
#1. Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.
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#2. Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
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#3. It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
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#5. No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute ... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?
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#6. I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.
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#7. Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
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#9. I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
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#10. Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.
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#11. It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
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#12. Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.
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#13. If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
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#14. While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.
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#15. The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
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#16. [S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.
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#17. The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.
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