1970s Quote by Helen Garner

“We were women in transition, raised in one era and coming of age in another, very different time...here we were, entering the workplace in…

— Lynn Povich

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

— John Schlesinger

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

— Marianne Williamson

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

— Chris Chibnall

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

— Sandra Bernhard

When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about…

— Kathy Calvin

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women…

— Angeles Mastretta

Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being…

— Steve Coogan

In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were…

— Eavan Boland

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was…

— Betty Friedan