With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share
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. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
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… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with what other… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
