Gay Liberation Movement

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“Whether we regard the Women’s Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”
—Arianna Stassinopoulos (b. 1950)

“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
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