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 »
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution w...here love is not allowed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movement... in the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've ta...lked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse exp...eriences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot question like, "Isn't the wome...n's movement in favor of all women abandoning their children and going off to work?" ... the leader usually replies that the movement isn't in favor of all women doing anything right; what the movement is about, she says, is options. She is right, of course. At its best, that is exactly what the movement is about. But it just doesn't work out that way. Because the hardest thing for us to accept is the right to those options. I hear myself saying these words: what this movement is about is options. I say it to my friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I am really thinking is, if you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expect...ancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of dai...ly existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals--and critics of the Women's Movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... contemporary black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black ...male patriarchs and a women's movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until the Women's Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that he'd like to publish more of my poems, but he'd alread...y published one by a woman that month ... this attitude was the rule rather than the exception, until the mid-sixties. Highest compliment was to be told, "You write like a man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »