Florynce Kennedy - Women Quotes

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Divide and conquer — that's what they try to do to any group trying to make social change. I call it D&C. Black people are supposed to turn against Puerto Ricans. Women are supposed to turn against their mothers and mothers-in-law. We're all supposed to compete with each other for the favors of the ruling class.

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The draft is very new in this country, and a lot of people want to eliminate it. But as soon as women start talking about their rights, somebody says they should get drafted. It's as if men are saying, "If you don't let me hold the door open for you, I'll slam it on your hand.

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Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups.... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

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What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

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In a jockocratic society, you can turn on the TV and find out the score of some basketball game in Alaska — but you can't find out how many states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. You can turn on the radio, and hear every score in the country repeated all day long — but you don't hear how many women died from illegal abortions.

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Women have at least three kinds of power: Dollar Power, to boycott with; Vote Power, to take over structures with, and maybe even get somebody elected; and Body Power, to get out and support our friends and make a damned nuisance of ourselves with everybody else.

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Women who say they're contented just having a nice husband and two beautiful children — fine; I'm glad. Of course, I always wonder what happens if one of the children isn't beautiful... and if the housework is so rewarding, why don't men do it, too? But this Movement isn't about getting some woman to leave her husband. It's about social justice.

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