Best quotes by Karen DeCrow on Women

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• ‟ 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... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

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• ‟ Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

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• ‟ In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

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• ‟ Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

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• ‟ Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

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• ‟ Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

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