...I have never known a "movement" in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that th...e very people associated with various "uplifting" activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, j...ealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there is a dangerous trend observable in some quarters of the Movement to program Sapphire out of her "evil" ways into a cover...-up, shut-up, lay-back-and-be-cool obedience role. She is being assigned an unreal role of mute servant that supposedly neutralizes the acidic tension that exists between Black men and Black women. She is being encouraged--in the name of revolution no less--to cultivate "virtues" that if listed would sound like the personality traits of slaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them serio...usly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women who assume authority are unnatural. Unnatural women are lesbians. Therefore all the leaders of the women's movement were pre...sumed to be lesbians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.... ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel of ...activity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press... down here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »