Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves an...d refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated until ... the right to work is a matter of course and not of discussion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My consciousness-raising group is still going on. Every Monday night it meets, somewhere in Greenwich Village, and it drinks a lot... of red wine and eats a lot of cheese. A friend of mine who is in it tells me that at the last meeting, each of the women took her turn to explain, in considerable detail, what she was planning to stuff her Thanksgiving turkey with. I no longer go to the group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay, I'm going to get your money for you. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that ph...one, you know what's going to happen to you? Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What? Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most fruitful and natural exercise of our mind, in my opinion, is discussion. I find it sweeter than any other action of our l...ife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...and publicity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple dev...elopment of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every reader of the French or German papers knows that not a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed socia...l decrepitude;Mfalling off of the birthrate;Mdecline of rural population;Mlowering of army standards;Mmultiplication of suicides;Mincrease of insanity or idiocy,--of cancer,--of tuberculosis;Msigns of nervous exhaustion,--of enfeebled vitality,--"habits" of alcoholism and drugs,--failure of eyesight in the young,--and so on, without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists..., there may be moods--moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former--but no opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »