Karen DeCrow Quotes:

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

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

Topics: Art, School, Renaissance, Art School

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

Topics: Struggle, Rights, America, Womens Rights, Rights In America

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.

Topics: Color, People, Minorities

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.

Topics: Abortion, Would Be, Birth Control, Roe V Wade

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.

Topics: Girl, World, Way

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring a 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.

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

Topics: Father, Pregnancy, Independent, Autonomous, Biological Fathers

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.

Topics: Art, Pain, War, Poor Health, Art Music

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

Topics: Girl, School, Athletics

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

Topics: Children, Men, Thinking

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.

Topics: Mother, Believe, Men, Legislators

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

Topics: Feminist, Well Known, Century

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.

Topics: Men, Parent, Should

I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

Topics: Issues, Pay

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.

Topics: Sex, Pain, Men

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.

Topics: Two, Marxist, Grows

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.

Topics: Political, Looks, Opponents, Political Opponents