Quote #77

Buck's efforts on behalf of equality included tireless support for women's rights. She promoted modern birth control and called her friend Margaret Sanger 'one of the most courageous women of our times,' a person whose name 'would go down in history' as a modern crusader for justice. In the 1930s and 1940s, Buck also spoke out repeatedly in support of an Equal Rights Amendment for women, at a time when opposition to it included the majority of organized women's groups.

More from Pearl Buck

  1. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come into contact with a new idea.
  2. How does a woman of this magnitude and range slip away from our national consciousness? She has not exactly disappeared. Rather, as one rea…
  3. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent, without giv…
  4. She was a spokesman on all sorts of issues: freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the adoptability of disadvantaged children, the futu…
  5. We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.
  6. The most influential Westerner to write about China since thirteenth-century Marco Polo.
  7. Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
  8. When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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