Crystal Eastman Quotes

Crystal Eastman (9)

Birth:	25th June, 1881
Death:	8th July, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Feminist, Journalist, Lawyer

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• 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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• A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

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

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• 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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• If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it’s false and useless.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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