RIGHT-WING THREAT TO WOMEN
Don't let them deny it! Women are being attacked and challenged anew by the right-wing in America. A Republican leader in the Wisconsin legislature announced "proudly" that it was only right that men were paid more than women because men needed more money than women. Shades of the 19th century! And the right-wing who constantly criticizes government and wants less of it, nevertheless wants legislation that has the government snooping in the physician's exam rooms to be sure women behave puritanically in their lives. Shades of the 18th century! With Mother's Day approaching, I thought it was a good time to post some thoughts that relate to woman....[stay to the end, not the usual words]
"Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Whether women are better than men I cannot say -- but I can say they are certainly no worse." -Golda Meir
"The male sex still constitutes in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find." -Lord Longford
In the Charter of the United Nations: "To affirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women..."
"Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other." -Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]
"Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new, critical direction -- is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival." -Adrienne Rich
"Piece by peace I seem / to re-enter the world." -Adrienne Rich
"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! We will not have great questions decided by irrelevent agencies. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience." -Julia Ward Howe
"Mother's Day really was in its origin an anti-war day, an anti-war statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War; the loss of life, the carnage; and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving confict." -Gloria Steinem
