3 Pearl Buck Quotes on Equality

Pearl Buck quotes on equality

2. There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

5. Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

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.