Karen DeCrow Quotes

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.