Quotes by : Leora Tanenbaum

In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual....

Although drinking to the point of becoming incapacitated is unwise and risky for anyone, the blame for....

Three out of ten women in the United States have an abortion by the time they are forty-five years old.....

Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young....

What drives abortion bans and restrictions? The belief that women who have sex for pleasure rather than....

When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public.....

Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed....

Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking....

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls....

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for....

If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps....