Crystal Eastman Quotes

#1. While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Ian Hornak

#2. By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn't do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Crystal Eastman

#4. Curiosity was stronger than caution.

George R R Martin

#5. [S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. Why do you persist in this belief that punishment must be meted out from either God or Satan when the most relentless, merciless punisher is that within? For we can never escape its scourges and lashes.

John F.D. Taff

#13. I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

Ian Hart

#14. I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

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#15. Stopping at the sound of the words he just spoke, my cheeks warmed and my pussy meowed. Yes, it meowed like a hungry feline.

K.M. Golland

#16. A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

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#17. 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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#18. There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas - something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

Jerome K. Jerome

#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Life is a big battle for the complete feminist ...

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.

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