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9 quotes by Crystal Eastman

Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties...
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A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

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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... →

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

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

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

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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 and... →

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

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It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

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It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for... →

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