Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes


"There is no reason to repeat bad history."
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
(Related: History, Reason)

"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
(Related: Marriage, Children, Reason)

"There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development."
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
(Related: Development, Woman)

"Men without jobs do not form families."
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
(Related: Men, Jobs)

"On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family."
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
(Related: Equality, Family, Women, Values, American, Example, Road, Treatment)