“More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers.”
“Growing up, metabolizing hatred like daily bread, because I am black, because I am woman…”
“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism.”
“Black women…had to become strong, for their families and their communities…”
“.so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved.”
“any interest of the State in…an inherently hazardous procedure …has largely disappeared.”
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded…”
“women, who remain single are seen as failures regardless of how successful and fulfilled…”
“Civilization has always been able to substitute other methods… for those of physical strength…”
“When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.”