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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.

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Admit Agitation Everybody Fight Fundamentally Harder Having Hostility Indifference Like Nothing Right Than

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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.

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Active Asleep Begins Both Dangerous Down Get Lamb Lie Lion Right Them Together

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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.

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: About Average Average Man Carefully Cheerful Crumbs Cultivated Him Household Ignorance Inefficiency Man Matters Number Protects Sort Telephone Which

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

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Deal Goes Good Good Deal Name Protection Tyranny

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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.

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Denying Economic Feminism Get Independence Joys Learn Love Me Motherhood Out Roots Seems Themselves Until Want Way Without Women Work Work Out

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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.

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Different Emphasis Give Important Largely Matter Much Point Point Of View Politics Vastly View Women

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

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Because Congress Go Merely She Woman Would

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

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Arrival Baby False Feminist First Goes Pieces Program Useless

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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.

~Crystal Eastman

Topics: Am Because Children However Interested Just Just Because Longer Not Interested Seeing Women I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: June 25th, 1881

Died: July 8th, 1928

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