Women's Liberation Quotes
Gloria Jean Watkins
Although Mao attempted to reform Chinese sexist culture and practice, his and other efforts are taking hold very slowly. Into the 21st century, the Chinese Communist party included women but not at the highest levels where the traditional practice of selecting leaders was to choose elderly males. Part of the prejudice agaist female leaders results from Chinese history where women have ruled or controlled China at several points, but none performed well. This is unlike the experiences of England, India, Israel, and other nations where women have been very successful and respected leaders. There is an American NGO in China, providing assistance to women, which has adopted the name “Half the Sky” and it is the title of a book by Nicholas Kristoff and a record album by Ruby Turner.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
She was chiding the Egyptian military who in the Arab Spring, turned on demonstrators and soldiers in the middle of the central square stripped a female demonstrator half naked and beat her badly;
This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.
At the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers had seen fit not to restrict a woman’s right to birth control and abortion, both of which were prevalent in Colonial America albeit not very reliable or safe. The first efforts to control abortion were in the 1820s and 1830s. Storer was the first anti-abortion activist. His major issue was that abortion diminished America’s fertility rate and with the high fertility of the immigrants, the native Americans would be overwhelmed.
