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.

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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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Crystal Eastman (9)

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

About

Crystal Catherine Eastman was born in  Marlborough, Massachusetts. She was an American lawyer,  feminist, socialist, and journalist. She graduated from Vassar College in 1903 and received an M.A. in sociology from Columbia University in 1904. Gaining her law degree from New York University Law School, she graduated second in the class of 1907. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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