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“When I went to the swimming pool [in Chicago] I found negro girls floating about in the water. The first impulse was to refuse to go in; then I remembered I was in Yankee land and when in Rome -- I slide off into the water.”

Jim Crow Laws When In Rome Overcoming Racism

Book:My First Thirty Years

Source: My First Thirty Years

“The person who called me "Lyncher" at first was surprised to find that I was "almost brilliant.”

White Trash Regionalism Southern Prejudice

Book:My First Thirty Years

Source: My First Thirty Years

“Clothes were wonderful things; one ought always to wear a hat as saucy and pretty as mine before going to see an editor.”

Publishing Industry Clothes Quotes Dress For Success

Book:My First Thirty Years

Source: My First Thirty Years

“Mrs. Sanger was a woman who would have understood my mother, I was sure.”

Birth Control Suffragettes Margaret Sanger

Book:My First Thirty Years

Source: My First Thirty Years

“The Socialists had always stood for woman suffrage and would continue to work for the women regardless of whether or not they received a single vote from the Women's Party. I knew whom I would vote for.”

Votes For Women

Book:My First Thirty Years

Source: My First Thirty Years

“Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with people whom I should never have chosen. Sometimes I wish that, as I lay in the womb, a soft pink embryo, I had somehow thought, breathed or moved and wrought destruction to the woman who bore me, and her eight miserable children who preceded me, and the four round-faced mediocrities who came after me, and her husband, a monstrously cruel, Christ-like, and handsome man with an animal’s appetite for begetting children.”

First Sentences

Book:My First Thirty Years

Source: My First Thirty Years