Crystal Eastman Quotes
"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."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Women, Children)
"I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Congress, Woman)
"If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Baby, First)
"Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Agitation, Fight, Indifference, Nothing, Right)
"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."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Lie, Right)
"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."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Politics, Women)
"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."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Ignorance, Inefficiency, Man)
"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."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Love, Women, Work, Feminism, Independence, Motherhood, Want)