Crystal Eastman

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is…

— Crystal Eastman

Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how…

— Crystal Eastman

I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within…

— Crystal Eastman

What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women…

— Crystal Eastman

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

— Crystal Eastman

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young…

— Crystal Eastman

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed…

— Crystal Eastman

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

— Crystal Eastman

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis.…

— Crystal Eastman

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

— Crystal Eastman

With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with…

— Crystal Eastman

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with…

— Crystal Eastman

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

— Crystal Eastman

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one…

— Crystal Eastman

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's…

— Crystal Eastman

While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world…

— Crystal Eastman

“Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.”

— Crystal Eastman

I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never…

— Crystal Eastman

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitationlike having everybody admit that it is fundamentally…

— Crystal Eastman

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

— Crystal Eastman

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the…

— Crystal Eastman

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

— Crystal Eastman