Karen DeCrow Quotes

• 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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Father, Pregnancy, Independent

  Letter to the editor by Karen DeCrow, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1982.

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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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Men, Parent, Said

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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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Political, Looks, Opponents

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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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Mother, Believe, Men

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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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Sex, Pain, Men

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• 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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Two, Marxist, Grows

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• 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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Color, People, Minorities

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• 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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Girl, World, Way

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

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, School, Renaissance

  Karen DeCrow (1974). “Sexist justice”, Random House (NY)

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

  Karen DeCrow

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• 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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, Pain, War

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

  Karen DeCrow

  Feminist, Well Known, Institutions

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• 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.

  Karen DeCrow

  Abortion, Would Be, Birth Control

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

  Karen DeCrow

  Struggle, Rights, America

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• I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

  Karen DeCrow

  Issues, Pay

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

  Karen DeCrow

  Girl, School, Athletics

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