Steve Rushin Quotes

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.

Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

All women are rebels.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.

Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while..." "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.

When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.