I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one h...undred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the huma...n subject. I hope it may prove successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to vi...rtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be s...educed from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austria...n one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brin...gs out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are poli...tically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »