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... every woman's organization recognizes that reformers are far more common than feminists, that the passion to look after your fellow man, and especially woman, to do good to her in your way is far more common than the desire to put into every one's hand the power to look after themselves.
(Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), U.S. social/political activist and author. The World (June 27, 1926). On Women and Revolution, part 1 (1978).)
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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.
(Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), U.S. social/political activist and author. "A Matter of Emphasis," Time and Tide (June 5, 1925). On Women and Revolution, part 1 (1978).
American women had gained the right to vote only five years earlier.)
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Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.
(Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), U.S. social/political activist and author. "Boys and Girls," Time and Tide (January 4, 1924). On Women and Revolution, part 1 (1978).
Noting that, although women were winning acceptance in the workplace, equality in the home was much more elusive.)
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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.
(Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), U.S. author and political activist. On Women and Revolution, part 1 (1978).
From an article originally published in Birth Control Review (January 1918). To dispense information about birth control was then illegal.)
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If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
(Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), U.S. social/political activist and author. On Women and Revolution, part 1 (1978).
Written in 1920, the same year that the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution took effect, enfranchising women after a 72-year struggle for suffrage.)
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I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
(Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), U.S. social/political activist and author. Quoted in an article by Elisabeth Smith, which was reprinted in the appendix to this edition of Eastman's writings: "Feminist for Equality, Not 'Women as Women'," New York Telegram and Evening Mail (October 31, 1924). On Women and Revolution, Appendix (1978).
Eastman was secretary of the Women for Congress Campaign Committee of the National Woman's Party (NWP) and was explaining that she supported the NWP's candidates only because they were capable people and because the NWP strongly backed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution (which was never passed). Only four years earlier, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution had taken effect, enfranchising American women after a 72-year struggle for suffrage.)
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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.
(Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), U.S. social/political activist and author. Quoted in an article by Elisabeth Smith, which was reprinted in the appendix to this edition of Eastman's writings: "Feminist for Equality, Not 'Women as Women'," New York Telegram and Evening Mail (October 31, 1924). On Women and Revolution, appendix (1978).)
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