Crystal Eastman Quotes

[s]exual Intercourse Remains A Means Or The Means Of Psychologically Making A Woman Inferior.

If The Feminist Program Goes To Pieces On The Arrival Of The First Baby, It's False And Useless.

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.

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?

With A Generous Endowment Of Motherhood Provided By Legislation, With All Laws Against Voluntary Motherhood And Education In Its Methods Repealed, With The Feminist Ideal Of Education Accepted In Home And School, And With All Special Barriers Removed In Every Field Of Human Activity, There Is No Reason Why Woman Should Not Become Almost A Human Thing. It Will Be Time Enough Then To Consider Whether She Has A Soul.

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.

I Took A Small Flat For Myself And The Children ... My Husband Took A Room In A Clean Rooming House Within Easy Walking Distance Of His Office. ... It Is Wonderful Sometimes To Be Alone In The Night And Just Know That Someone Loves You. In Other Moods You Must Have That Lover In Your Arms. Marriage Under Two Roofs Makes Room For Moods.

I Don't Believe There Is One Woman Within The Confines Of This State Who Does Not Believe In Birth Control. I Never Met One. That Is, I Never Met One Who Thought That She Should Be Kept In Ignorance Of Contraceptive Methods. Many I Have Met Who Valued The Knowledge They Possessed, But Thought There Were Certain Other Classes Who Would Be Better Kept In Ignorance. The Old Would Protect The Young. The Rich Would Keep The Poor In Ignorance. The Good Would Keep Their Knowledge From The Bad, The Strong From The Weak.

I Would Not Have A Woman Go To Congress Merely Because She Is A Woman.

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.

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.

Indifference Is Harder To Fight Than Hostility, And There Is Nothing That Kills An Agitation Like Having Everybody Admit That It Is Fundamentally Right.