Episode 29: “Keep the Damned Women Out: The Struggle for Coeducation” by Nancy Weiss Malkiel
“the range of sex discrimination that was built into the fabric of American society.”
“the range of sex discrimination that was built into the fabric of American society.”
“The only way for a woman…to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.”
“policymakers always seem to find money for control and domination – for prisons, weapons, wars.”
“We call on the governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more active part”
“Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
“Every woman should be absolute mistress of her own body.”
“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men’s work at half men’s wages”
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”