Arundhati Roy Quotes
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
Roy, Arundhati. Walking with the Comrades. Penguin Books, 2011.
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
Stowe persuaded Lockwood to stand for President. They tried to recruit a man for the Vice Presidential nomination, and when they could not, Stowe became the first female to become a Vice Presidential candidate.
Sister of Max Eastman. Women had just obtained the vote, but it was illegal to distribute information about birth control or birth control devices. It was not until 1963 that the Supreme Court nullified criminal statutes against distributing birth control devices.
She did not identify with “feminists” because most of the ones she read and came into contact with tended to want to change the role of women in society. Selbert wanted them simply to have equal rights under the law, and then individually each could make of that what they would. She was very effective because she did not threaten men as much as many of the feminists of the time did. All she said she demanded was equal and fair treatment in the culture that existed. She probably knew that the equality in fact would lead to major changes in society, but she saw no point in discussing that.
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.
