Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women’s rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people’s faces – surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling – when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age. Karen DeCrow Read Quote
