Holly Near Quotes

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

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

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.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?

[T]he great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment.

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

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

I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

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

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

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.

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.

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

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

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.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.