Dana Bash Quotes

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

… this mad, wicked folly of women’s rights

Women have not had their rights come easily.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

If we should see ladies attending conventions, traveling about the country in great carts drawn by many yoke of oxen, waving their pocket handkerchiefs to assembled multitudes, it would greatly shock our sensibilities.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.