I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off gender as an independent locus of oppression, we dilute the strength of a women's movement, or of women's rights advocacy.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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