The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet…

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

— Rebecca Traister

“while the feminist movement of the 1970s was in part a “direct response to these conditions of early and pervasive marriage,” the ironic side…

— Rebecca Traister

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about…

— George Clooney

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's…

— Steven Van Zandt

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to…

— Susan Jacoby

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers'…

— Tom Morello

“Philanthropists and donors traditionally haven't been sufficiently interested in women's rights abroad, giving money instead to higher brow causes such as the ballet or…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women's rights movement and feminism. But I think anything's…

— Cheryl Benard quoting Lorrie

“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my…

— Diane Chamberlain

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in…

— Asra Nomani

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this…

— Clara Zetkin

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the…

— Manisha Sinha

“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history has shown…

— Diane Chamberlain

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we…

— Graydon Carter