Karen DeCrow Quotes

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• Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that…
• In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each…
• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
• I joined NOW on an issue of pay.
• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you…
• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he…
• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if…
• From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor,…
• I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of…
• In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me.…
• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in…
• Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women…
• In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people…
• George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he…
• If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard…
• Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
• Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
• Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use…
• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore…
• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

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