Linda Gordon Quotes

• The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

  Linda Gordon

  Feminist, Nuclear Families, Revolutionary

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.... No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children... Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all.

  Linda Gordon

  Children, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.

  Linda Gordon

  Fighting, People, Together

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• As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

  Linda Gordon

  Women, Feminist, Gains

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• The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.

  Linda Gordon

  Sex, Acceptance, Birth Control

  Linda Gordon (2002). “The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America”, p.1, University of Illinois Press

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• Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

  Linda Gordon

  Happy Endings, Ends, Tales

  Linda Gordon (2011). “The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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