Florynce Kennedy Quotes

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

Don't agonize, organize.

You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.

Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

Don't agonise, organise.

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

Don't agonize. Organize.

If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.