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Bella Abzug, first Jewish female member of Congress; feminist, peace and
civil liberty activist:
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| Diane Ackerman, poet: "I don't want to get to the end of my life
and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of
it as well." | ||||||||||||
| Louisa May Alcott, author: "I asked for bread, and I got a stone in
the shape of a pedestal." | ||||||||||||
| Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), suffragist & women's rights advocate:
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| Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist: "Love comes when
manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his
or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare
to be vulnerable." | ||||||||||||
| Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the U.S.: "Sensible
and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be
assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned
long ago by a higher intelligence than ours." | ||||||||||||
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Marian Wright Edelman, activist: "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore
the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big
differences that we often cannot foresee." | ||||||||||||
| Jerry Falwell, fundamentalist Christian leader: "I listen to
feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've
blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper
Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need
a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to
tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and
they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men -
that's their problem." | ||||||||||||
| Susan Faludi, journalist: "Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that
women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness." | ||||||||||||
| Matthew Fox, Episcopalian priest and theologian: "Evil is the
shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing
and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for
them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there." | ||||||||||||
| Anne Frank, author: "How wonderful it is that nobody need
wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." | ||||||||||||
| Betty Friedan, activist:
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| Justin Fulton, writer & opponent of universal suffrage: "Who demand
the ballot for woman? They are not the lovers of God, nor are they believers
in Christ, as a class. There may be exceptions, but the majority prefer an
infidel’s cheer to the favor of God and the love of the Christian community." | ||||||||||||
| Helen Hayes, actress: "Rest and you rust." | ||||||||||||
| Cynthia Heimel, author: "During the feminist revolution, the battle
lines were again simple. It was easy to tell the enemy, he was the one with
the penis. This is no longer strictly true. Some men are okay now. We're
allowed to like them again. We still have to keep them in line, of course, but
we no longer have to shoot them on sight." | ||||||||||||
| Erica Jong, novelist, poet, & essayist: "Women are the only
exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness." | ||||||||||||
| Helen Keller, inspirational writer:
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| Florynce Kennedy, lawyer, feminist civil rights activist: "There
are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs
should be open to everybody." | ||||||||||||
| Sally Kempton, teacher of meditation and tantric philosophy:
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| Timothy Leary, philosopher and psychologist: "Women who seek to be
equal with men lack ambition." | ||||||||||||
| Rosa Luxemburg, activist: "Freedom is always and exclusively
freedom for the one who thinks differently." | ||||||||||||
| Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist: "Every time we liberate a
woman, we liberate a man." | ||||||||||||
| Robert Mueller, FBI director: "I asked a Burmese why women, after
centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many
unexploded land mines since the war. | ||||||||||||
| Nora Roberts, novelist: "If you don't go after what you want,
you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't
step forward, you're always in the same place." | ||||||||||||
| Pat Robertson, fundamentalist Christian leader: "[Feminism is] a
socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave
their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism
and become lesbians." | ||||||||||||
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Harriet H. Robinson, author: "By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him."
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| Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady, civil rights activist:
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist: "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men and women are created equal." | ||||||||||||
| John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal bishop: The problem with the
Old and New Testaments is that they are both dated pieces of literature that
reflect the values and mores of those who wrote them between 1000 BCE and 135
CE. Many passages in the Old Testament reflect a tribal mentality that
portrays God as hating everyone the people of Israel hated. It also portrays
God as killing the firstborn male in every household in Egypt on the night of
the Passover; justifies the institution of slavery (except for fellow Jews)
and defines women as the property of men. Note that even the Ten Commandments
exhort us "not covet our neighbor's house, his wife, his slaves, his ox, his
ass, etc." The neighbor is clearly a male, and the things that we are
forbidden to covet are all male possessions. These Hebrew Scriptures, however,
also define God as love, justice and as a universal being. In the portrait of
the "Servant" in Isaiah 40-55 the Hebrew Scriptures portray human life as
capable of giving itself away and even of acting in such a way as to draw the
pain out of others, absorb it and return it as love. The New Testament
portrays Paul as believing that slavery is good if it is kind. Paul also
reveals attitudes toward women that are today deeply embarrassing: "I forbid a
woman to have authority over a man." "Women should keep quiet in church." | ||||||||||||
| Starhawk (Miriam Simos), Wiccan, writer and activist:
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| Marlo Thomas, actress: "One of the things about equality is not
just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally
to the way you treat a man." | ||||||||||||
| Rebecca West, novelist and critic: "I myself have never been able
to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a
feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat
or a prostitute." | ||||||||||||
| James McNeill Whistler, painter & graphic artist: "My advice to the
women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias." | ||||||||||||
| Mary Wollstonecraft, writer:
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Originally posted: 2009-FEB-02
Latest update: 2009-FEB-02
Author: B.A. Robinson
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