Top 19 Quotes About Women's Liberation Movement
#1. I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
Mary Gordon
#2. In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.
Lynn Povich
#3. I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine." He closed his eyes and laughed. "And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women's Liberation Movement's list of things not to say to a modern woman.
Patricia Briggs
#4. Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.
Ava Gardner
#5. When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
Marianne Williamson
#6. I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.
Craig Roberts
#7. Why was it that nine men out of ten thought women were incapable of doing anything but boiling potatoes? she thought furiously, and felt a savage sympathy for members of the Women's Lib movement, which up until now she had always faintly despised.
Sue Peters
#8. Tonight, you're mine. In fact, Songbird this is only the beginning. This body, pussy, your voice, all of it belongs to me.
Sienna Mynx
#9. You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
Helen Lawrenson
#10. Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
George Gilder
#11. Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful.
Rebecca Solnit
#12. We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.
Mary Blakely
#13. Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.
David Sedaris
#14. She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#15. When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.
Michael Moore
#16. Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?
Bob Hope
#17. Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.
Kiese Laymon
#18. The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
#19. Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
Andrea Dworkin
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