Gail Collins Quotes

Freedom for woman … can only be freedom for the middle-class woman … Socialism and feminism if they can be parallel social tendencies, cannot be one cause.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

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.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

Leave women to find their sphere.

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Women have been interesting forever.

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.

I think feminism is about the spirit.

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.