Quote#World
The hardest part of the battle is yet to come; the battle with…
Quote byCrystal Eastman · 1881–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech at the First Feminist Mass Meeting in any country, New York City, February 1914.
English (original)
The hardest part of the battle is yet to come; the battle with ourselves, with our inherited instincts, with our cultivated taste for leisure, with our wrong early training, with our present physical unfitness… God meant the whole rich world of work and play and adventure for women as well as men. It is high time for us to enter into our heritage – that is my feminist faith.
— Crystal Eastman
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