A Quote by Marianne Williamson

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Marianne Williamson

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Buzz College Liberation Movement Women

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Marianne Williamson
American - Author
Born: July 8, 1952

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

Arianna Huffington

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

Rebecca Traister

One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.

Laura Mulvey

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

Holly Near

I grew up in the 1970s and I am a product of women's liberation. My generation is really the first one to fully benefit from the movement. It's the same for homosexuals. We are the first generation to really accept that someone is gay. I work with people who are gay and of course I don't think about it. I don't care if someone lives with a man. Twenty years ago it was an issue. Now it's not.

Pernille Fischer Christensen

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

Warren Farrell

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Constance Baker Motley

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Bob Edwards

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

Lynn Povich

Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'

Hugh Hefner

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Andrea Dworkin

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

J. Courtney Sullivan

But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.