Top 26 Florynce Kennedy Quotes

#1. I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

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#2. The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

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#3. Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

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#4. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

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#5. Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

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#6. Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.

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#7. You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.

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#8. When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

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#9. If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

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#10. Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

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#11. I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

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#12. I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

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#13. Niggerization is the result of oppression
and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

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#14. Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

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#15. [When asked by a male heckler, "Are you a lesbian?"]
Are you my alternative?

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#16. Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

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#17. The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

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#18. It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

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#19. I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

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#20. Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

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#21. At my age ... I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

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#22. Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...

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#23. You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

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#24. There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

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#25. Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table ... Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust ... the whole place will be dirty again.

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#26. Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

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