Florynce Kennedy Quotes & Sayings

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. — Florynce Kennedy

Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster. — Florynce Kennedy

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down. — Florynce Kennedy

Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra. — Florynce Kennedy

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages. — Florynce Kennedy

Niggerization is the result of oppression
and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized. — Florynce Kennedy

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day. — Florynce Kennedy

At my age ... I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else. — Florynce Kennedy

You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun. — Florynce Kennedy

[When asked by a male heckler, "Are you a lesbian?"]
Are you my alternative? — Florynce Kennedy

There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. — Florynce Kennedy

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck. — Florynce Kennedy

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Florynce Kennedy

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism. — Florynce Kennedy

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ... — Florynce Kennedy

A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again. — Florynce Kennedy

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. — Florynce Kennedy

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear. — Florynce Kennedy

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice? — Florynce Kennedy

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me. — Florynce Kennedy

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass. — Florynce Kennedy

You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change. — Florynce Kennedy

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses. — Florynce Kennedy

Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness. — Florynce Kennedy

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. — Florynce Kennedy

Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table ... Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust ... the whole place will be dirty again. — Florynce Kennedy

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag. — Florynce Kennedy