Crystal Eastman Quotes

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

Feminism insists on women's right to make choices - about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and family or to focus on one over the other. It also urges men and women to share the joys and burdens of family life and calls on society to place a higher priority on supporting caregiving work.

We must use our seat at the table to be a voice every day for women and girls across the country who often do not have the same opportunity to have their voices heard. This means advocating for childcare and paid family leave, as first daughter Ivanka Trump has championed in this administration.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.

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.

I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Could it be that women in the United States have become too independent – that they have followed the lead of women like Margaret Sanger by neglecting family life for career?.

Feminism is being able to have the choice - the choice to be a CEO, to be an executive, to be a journalist, to be a congresswoman, to be a mother, a stay-at-home mother, to be a wife.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children, and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?'

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.