Crystal Eastman

“Birth control is an elementary essential in all aspects of feminism.”

“Feminists are not nuns. That should be established.”

“We are not trying to get a bayonet-proof vest for our sons, but a world in which there are no bayonets.”

“Now we can begin. ... What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings.”

“If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it is false and useless.”

“Life is a big battle for the complete liberation of the human personality.”

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.”

“A woman's battle for financial independence is a battle for her soul.”

“I don't want my sister to be a servant. I want her to be a person.”

“The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, and then keep on doing it.”

“I want to be a free agent, not a satellite.”