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Crystal Eastman

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Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, activist, and academic, a prominent figure during the Progressive Era. Known for her work in labor rights, women's suffrage, and civil liberties, Eastman was a leading advocate for social justice. She was a key figure in the labor rights movement, a pivotal player in the women's suffrage movement, and a proponent of civil liberties.

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“I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.”

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“While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.”

Men World War Fighting Sex Ignorance Birth Burden War Of The Worlds New World World War I Birth Control American Woman Old World Autocracy

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“With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.”

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“No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?”

Crime Civilization Connections Western Vices Illegal Prostitution Western Civilization Sellers Buyers Relics Subjection

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“Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.”

Knows Men World Stills Young Business Opinion Protect Sacred Young Man Young Women Public Opinion Housework Business World

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“What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.”

“Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.”

Bigs Life Is Feminism Battle Feminist

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“I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.”

Knows Children Two Sometimes Night House Easy Rooms Marriage Wonderful Love You Arms Lovers Walking Husband Office Distance Clean Mood Flats My Husband Roof One Love

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“Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.”

Knows Men Feels Two Home Together Know How Responsible Bored Partnership Business Woman

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“The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.”

Men Lasts Wife Activity Progressive

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“Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.”

Way Want Seems Joy Feminism Economic Roots Independence Work Out Equality Motherhood Being A Mom Joys Of Motherhood Economic Independence

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“[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.”

Mean Feminism Remains Feminist Inferiors Intercourse

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“It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.”

Giving Important Different Matter Views Point Of View Emphasis Different Points Of View

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“If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.”

Ifs Firsts Pieces Baby Program Feminist Useless Arrivals First Baby

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“The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.”

Men Matter Numbers Ignorance Protect Average Household Telephones Cheerful Housework Average Man Crumbs Inefficiency Grocers

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“It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.”

Ifs Together Lying Dangerous Active Lions Lambs

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“Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.”

Fighting Harder Indifference Hostility Agitation Indifference And Apathy

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“I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.”

Congress Aggravation

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“A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.”

Names Deals Protect Protection Tyranny Tyrants

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“I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.”

Children Seeing Not Interested Minors

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About the Author

Born: June 25, 1881
Died: July 8, 1928
Known for: Lawyer
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