If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation.
Feminisms agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves–instead of having their identity defined for them time and again by their culture and their men.
I am a feminist and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
Womens Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. Its the men who are discriminated against. They cant bear children. And no ones likely to do anything about that.
Learning while at school that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys and that when they became teachers women received only half as much as men for their services the injustice of this distinction was so apparent that I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed which by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures had been wrested from women.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt not just a laundry list of womens issues.
Feminisms agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves–instead of having their identity defined for them time and again by their culture and their men.
If I am what I have and what I have is lost who then am I?
I am a feminist and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
Womens Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. Its the men who are discriminated against. They cant bear children. And no ones likely to do anything about that.
Learning while at school that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys and that when they became teachers women received only half as much as men for their services the injustice of this distinction was so apparent that I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed which by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures had been wrested from women.
I owe nothing to Womens Lib.
The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.