Quotes by Crystal Eastman

About Crystal Eastman:

Crystal Catherine Eastman is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2000 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
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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.

Crystal Eastman

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

Crystal Eastman

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Crystal Eastman

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Crystal Eastman

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Crystal Eastman

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

Crystal Eastman

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Crystal Eastman

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

Crystal Eastman

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

Crystal Eastman

Author Bio

  • NameCrystal Eastman
  • DescriptionAmerican lawyer and feminist
  • BornJune 25, 1881
  • DiedJuly 8, 1928
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame