Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty Friedan

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Barbara Smith

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

Barbara Smith

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

Phyllis Schlafly

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

Robert Purvis

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Richard Grimes

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

Henry Hampton

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Henrietta Szold

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

Patricia Ireland

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

Bobby Seale

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

Florence Kelley

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

Florence Kelley

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

Florence Kelley

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

Kathy Acker

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Kathy Acker

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

Kathy Acker

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Kathy Acker

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Kathy Acker

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Kathy Acker

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Kathy Acker

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Kathy Acker

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.